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Vipul: /* Compensation model */

2008-06-19T19:45:14Z

Compensation model

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	# There is no monetary compensation or reimbursement for writing articles on Wikipedia		# There is no monetary compensation or reimbursement for writing articles on Wikipedia
	# No credits for an article are given on the article page itself. The authorship of a given article may be seen using the "history" tab or the "credits" option. However, the information revealed by the history may ~~b eincomplete~~ because anonymous users may have made certain edits, and even the registered users may not have used their real names and identities		# No credits for an article are given on the article page itself. The authorship of a given article may be seen using the "history" tab or the "credits" option. However, the information revealed by the history may be incomplete because anonymous users may have made certain edits, and even the registered users may not have used their real names and identities

	===Security model===		===Security model===

Vipul: /* Wikipedia as a free resource */

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Wikipedia as a free resource

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	Main reference pages:		Main reference pages:
	# ~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Wikipedia:Copyrights explains Wikipedia's copyright policy		# [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Copyrights]] explains Wikipedia's copyright policy
	# ~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Wikipedia:~~Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License~~ is the full text of the license used by Wikipedia		# [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License]] is the full text of the license used by Wikipedia

	==Management and organization==		==Management and organization==

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	Wikipedia is a free, online, open-content, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project.		Wikipedia is a free, online, open-content, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project.

			{{quotation\|'''SLOGANS''': ''Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia''<br>''Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit''<br>''Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.''}}
	==Use Wikipedia==		==Use Wikipedia==

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	==More about Wikipedia for users==		==More about Wikipedia for users==

			See also: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Introduction\|The English Wikipedia's introduction page]]
	===Criteria for Wikipedia content===		===Criteria for Wikipedia content===

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	===Sister projects===		===Sister projects===

	* [[Resource:Wikibooks]]		* [[Sister::Resource:Wikibooks]]
	* [[Resource:Wiktionary]]		* [[Sister::Resource:Wiktionary]]
	* [[Resource:Wikiverse]]		* [[Sister::Resource:Wikiverse]]
	* [[Resource:Wikisource]]		* [[Sister::Resource:Wikisource]]
	* [[Resource:Wikiversity]]		* [[Sister::Resource:Wikiversity]]
	* [[Resource:Wikinews]]		* [[Sister::Resource:Wikinews]]
			* [[Sister::Resource:Wikiquote]]
			* [[Sister::Resource:Wikispecies]]

Vipul: /* =Competitors */

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=Competitors

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	==Related resources==		==Related resources==

	===Competitors==		===Competitors===

	* [[Resource:Encyclopædia Britannica]]: Managed by Britannica Corporation, this has been one of the world's leading encyclopedia resources for many centuries.		* [[Competitor::Resource:Encyclopædia Britannica]]: Managed by Britannica Corporation, this has been one of the world's leading encyclopedia resources for many centuries.
	* [[Resource:Citizendium]]		* [[Competitor::Resource:Citizendium]]

	===Sister projects===		===Sister projects===

Vipul: /* Production model */

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Production model

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 # People seeking to collaborate on a given article can discuss material related to the article on its "discussion page" or "talk page", which can be accessed using the "discussion" tab of the article
 # A person can nominate an article for deletion on grounds that it violates Wikipedia policy. The issue is then discussed on a separate page, till a consensus is reached either way
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 Wikipedia relies on soft security to combat problems such as vandalism and bias in articles. Dedicated volunteers patrol the wiki to locate acts of vandalism, or content that otherwise violates Wikipedia policy. User accounts or IP addresses associated with such editing may be banned from editing Wikipedia.

Vipul: /* Using Wikipedia */

2008-05-23T22:16:00Z

Using Wikipedia

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	# [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia\|Ten things about Wikipedia]]: Important information about Wikipedia		# [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia\|Ten things about Wikipedia]]: Important information about Wikipedia
	# [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia\|Researching with Wikipedia]]: Information and suggestions about how to use Wikipedia for research		# [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia\|Researching with Wikipedia]]: Information and suggestions about how to use Wikipedia for research
			# [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Basic navigation\|Navigating and finding information on Wikipedia]]

	==Wikipedia as a free resource==		==Wikipedia as a free resource==

Vipul: /* Production model */

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Production model

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	===Collaborative content creation===		===Collaborative content creation===

	Wikipedia uses a ''strongly collaborative'' model of content creation.		Wikipedia uses a ''strongly collaborative'' model of content creation, powered by a wiki software called MediaWiki. Some of the key features of the model used on Wikipedia:

			# Anybody can register an account on Wikipedia, without necessarily revealing his/her real name and identity
			# Anybody can start an article on a topic (as of now, only logged-in users can start new articles) if no article on the topic exists
			# Once an article is created, anybody (and not just the original author of the article) can edit the article
			# Every revision of the article is stored on the wiki, and different revisions can be viewed and compared using the "history" tab of the article
			# People seeking to collaborate on a given article can discuss material related to the article on its "discussion page" or "talk page", which can be accessed using the "discussion" tab of the article
			# A person can nominate an article for deletion on grounds that it violates Wikipedia policy. The issue is then discussed on a separate page, till a consensus is reached either way

			===Compensation model===

			Wikipedia does not, as a rule, compensate people for writing articles. In particular:

			# There is no monetary compensation or reimbursement for writing articles on Wikipedia
			# No credits for an article are given on the article page itself. The authorship of a given article may be seen using the "history" tab or the "credits" option. However, the information revealed by the history may b eincomplete because anonymous users may have made certain edits, and even the registered users may not have used their real names and identities

			===Security model===

			Wikipedia relies on soft security to combat problems such as vandalism and bias in articles. Dedicated volunteers patrol the wiki to locate acts of vandalism, or content that otherwise violates Wikipedia policy. User accounts or IP addresses associated with such editing may be banned from editing Wikipedia.

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 ===Search Wikipedia===
-* http://www.wikipedia.org allows search in any of the language Wikipedias
+# http://www.wikipedia.org allows search in any of the language Wikipedias
-* In any of the language Wikipedias, there is a search box in the left column that allows any search
+# In any of the language Wikipedias, there is a search box in the left column that allows any search
-* http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Search is Wikipedia's internal site search
+# http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Search is the English Wikipedia's internal site search
 ==Wikipedia as a free resource==
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 ===Copyright and reuse===
-Any contributions made to Wikipedia are automatically considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), version 1.2. The GFDL is a ''copyleft'', ''open-content'' license, whose key feature is that it allows reuse without permission from the original author, as long as such reuse is also licensed under a similar license.
+Any contributions made to Wikipedia are automatically considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License ([[license::GFDL]]), version 1.2. The GFDL is a ''copyleft'', ''open-content'' license, whose key feature is that it allows reuse without permission from the original author, as long as such reuse is also licensed under a similar license.
 Main reference pages:
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 # http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate The donate page

Vipul: /* Management and organization */

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Management and organization

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	==Management and organization==		==Management and organization==

			General information in this direction is available at:

			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

	===Parent organization===		===Parent organization===

	Wikipedia is managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. The Wikimedia Foundation is responsible both for the servers that host Wikipedia content, and for maintaining and improving MediaWiki, the underlying software for Wikipedia.		Wikipedia is managed by the [[parent organization::Wikimedia Foundation]], a non-profit organization. The Wikimedia Foundation is responsible both for the servers that host Wikipedia content, and for maintaining and improving MediaWiki, the underlying software for Wikipedia.

	Main reference pages:		Main reference pages:
	# http://www.wikimedia.org is the Wikimedia Foundation's central page		# http://www.wikimedia.org is the Wikimedia Foundation's central landing page (listing Wikipedia and other sister projects)
			# http://www.wikimediafoundation.org is the Wikimedia Foundation's wiki
	# http://meta.wikimedia.org is a wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation to coordinate the Wikimedia Foundation's projects		# http://meta.wikimedia.org is a wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation to coordinate the Wikimedia Foundation's projects

	===Software tools===		===Software tools===

	Wikipedia runs on MediaWiki, a software designed for web-base collaborative authoring of articles. MediaWiki is ''free software'', and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0.		Wikipedia runs on [[software::MediaWiki]], a software designed for web-base collaborative authoring of articles. MediaWiki is ''free software'', and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0.

	MediaWiki was originally written by Magnus Manske, specifically for Wikipedia. Its development is handled by software professionals working for the Wikimedia Foundation. However, MediaWiki is free software and can be both used and modified by anybody. A number of extensions to MediaWiki have been developed by people outside the Wikimedia Foundation.		MediaWiki was originally written by Magnus Manske, specifically for Wikipedia. Its development is handled by software professionals working for the Wikimedia Foundation. However, MediaWiki is free software and can be both used and modified by anybody. A number of extensions to MediaWiki have been developed by people outside the Wikimedia Foundation.
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	# http://www.mediawiki.org is the MediaWiki website. It has the MediaWiki manual, links for downloading the software, as well as a listing of extensions developed for MediaWiki		# http://www.mediawiki.org is the MediaWiki website. It has the MediaWiki manual, links for downloading the software, as well as a listing of extensions developed for MediaWiki
	# http://www.wikiindex.org gives a list of wikis (not comprehensive)		# http://www.wikiindex.org gives a list of wikis (not comprehensive)

			===Financial model===

			The Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia's parent organization) is a non-profit organization (registered under Section 501 (c)(3)) founded in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States in 2002 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

			The financial model of the Wikimedia Foundation primarily rests on voluntary donation.

			# http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate The donate page

Vipul at 21:03, 23 May 2008

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 ==Use Wikipedia==
 Wikipedia is online, or Internet-based. It can be accessed using a web browser and an Internet connection.
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 Main website: http://www.wikipedia.org
-Language websites:
+Some major language websites:
 * English: http://en.wikipedia.org
 * French: http://fr.wikipedia.org
 * German: http://de.wikipedia.org
-* Spanish: http://es.wikipedia.org
+* Polish: http://pl.wikipedia.org