Science and Wikimedia Michael Peel Jodrell Bank/Wikimedia UK 22 August 2009
Wikipedia • Largest reference site on the internet • 3 million pages (English only) 300 million edits • 10 million editors/volunteers • 271 editions • Routinely first port of call for Google users
Wikipedia • Huge numbers of articles on: • Astronomy: >20,000 (57 “featured”) • Biology: >20,000 • Chemistry: >10,000 • Physics: >12,000 (37 “featured”) • etc...
Get involved! • Continual process of improving articles, and adding new ones (around 1 per minute!) • Anyone can edit (click on “edit”!) • Can ask/answer questions on talk pages • WikiProjects: groups of like-minded editors
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