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1 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,880 It was needed a place 2 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,200 to start adding knowledge 3 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:21,160 openly 4 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,000 so that it could get everywhere. 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,520 It's not ok to put copyrights on data 6 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:27,880 on information. 7 00:00:28,250 --> 00:00:30,320 Collaboration is a kind of miracle, 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:32,400 a delirium that works. 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,360 It is a kind of legacy 10 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,80 for other people to see it. 11 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:38,420 I am 27 years old. 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:39,920 I am 16 year old 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,800 I am a high school student 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,440 I am 59 years old 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,480 I am a union lawyer 16 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:46,760 I am a psychoanalyst 17 00:00:46,765 --> 00:00:48,200 I study to be librarian 18 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,160 I am a photographer 19 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:51,80 I'm going to be a mother soon. 20 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:53,200 I am dedicated to systems management 21 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,000 and I am a Wikipedian. 22 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,380 Many people believe that behind Wikipedia 23 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,640 there are thousands of employees working and writing articles. 24 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,760 Actually, people who build Wikipedia are volunteers. 25 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,320 I don't need to see my name on an article 26 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:15,160 I am happy 27 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,760 knowing that there are people reading it and finding it useful. 28 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,880 It is the thrill of discovering something that I didn't know 29 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,39 and putting it there 30 00:01:22,40 --> 00:01:23,840 therefore now I know it. 31 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,200 and so do others. 32 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:27,720 We donate our time for this cause, 33 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,960 to collaborate with the knowledge of mankind. 34 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,80 Is how everything works in Wikipedia, 35 00:01:33,80 --> 00:01:36,360 collaborating with what you do in your home. 36 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,920 My first article 37 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:45,399 As a Wikipedia reader 38 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,720 taking benefits 39 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,440 from all the work that other people put in it 40 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,480 somehow I started to feel 41 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,680 enthusiast for the possibility of being able to do the same. 42 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,80 I started poking around, to see how it was, 43 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,400 and I discovered that there was a button named "Edit". 44 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,600 And I thought, let's see what this is about. 45 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,39 My first edition was creating an article, 46 00:02:11,39 --> 00:02:13,400 and I had worked very hard on it. 47 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,367 When I uploaded it, a few minutes after 48 00:02:16,367 --> 00:02:20,840 it was marked as needing to be "wikified". 49 00:02:21,80 --> 00:02:25,560 It means, having the wiki style and format 50 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,120 I am from "Laferrere", 51 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,600 since there was no article about the city, 52 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,920 I had the great idea to copy and paste 53 00:02:32,936 --> 00:02:34,760 what was on the official website of the city. 54 00:02:37,40 --> 00:02:40,289 They deleted the article and sent me a huge message 55 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,250 with the forbidden things on Wikipedia, so I thought: 56 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:45,640 "Ah! this wasn't so simple." 57 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,40 I realized how committed 58 00:02:48,80 --> 00:02:51,000 this tool was. 59 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,920 And it was like, now I will take it as a personal challenge, 60 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:56,600 I want to do this. 61 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,160 So I started reading the tutorials 62 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,200 about how the encyclopedia works. 63 00:03:10,80 --> 00:03:12,320 At first, and I think it still happens, 64 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,440 one may think that Wikipedia is a place where you can write that you think. 65 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,160 And Wikipedia, despite having a collaborative and open aspect, 66 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,960 it is still an encyclopedia, 67 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:26,440 and as such, it has many rules to follow. 68 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,280 First, find a source, 69 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:29,960 and that source must be reliable. 70 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,600 References are very important because 71 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,120 they ensure that the information is true 72 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:37,640 and not an invention of the editor. 73 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,640 Search the bibliography, write according to what you have read 74 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,320 or investigated. 75 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,160 When I edit, I don't write my personal opinions. 76 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,880 A little research has to be done always before 77 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:54,600 defending a certain point of view. 78 00:03:55,80 --> 00:03:58,680 And so, achievements were made showing the different facets 79 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,880 good things, bad things 80 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,400 and different kind of views on a single topic. 81 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,720 You don't write an article alone, you write in group. 82 00:04:11,348 --> 00:04:14,800 There will always be other people criticizing and improving it, 83 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:16,800 giving opinions. 84 00:04:17,40 --> 00:04:19,600 In the beginning we didn't know each other, 85 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,760 we were all anonymous, only user names, 86 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,200 ignoring even if we were from Argentina or not. 87 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:26,120 Who would be? 88 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,760 It would be man, woman, young, old? 89 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,479 When you meet them one face to face is like wow, 90 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,560 you end up making friends. 91 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:40,880 And then you start to know the human side of each one 92 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,920 and it is really interesting to suddenly know each other. 93 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,320 We make edit-a-thons, meetings 94 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,800 to edit about a special article 95 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,880 or subject of our interest. 96 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,400 We help others learn how to edit 97 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,480 And it is the best starting point 98 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,440 for you to continue editing by yourself. 99 00:05:20,80 --> 00:05:22,919 Suddenly, you are no longer 100 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,520 sitting by yourself at home on a Sunday afternoon editing. 101 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,200 Unexpectedly, an institution appeared 102 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,719 and brought all of us together. 103 00:05:33,150 --> 00:05:35,719 The Wikimedia Foundation intends to make 104 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,27 all of its projects known, and there are many of them. 105 00:05:39,40 --> 00:05:44,411 There is Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Wikiquotes, Wikinews, Wiktionary. 106 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,200 Many projects with this common ideology 107 00:05:47,203 --> 00:05:50,320 of collaborative construction and free knowledge. 108 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,400 Wikimedia Commons is a 109 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,200 data library mostly photographs. 110 00:06:02,47 --> 00:06:06,560 And you can put them on the articles 111 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,960 with the creative commons license. 112 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:14,440 In Wikipedia you can see really long articles, 113 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,360 but they all started with a phrase. 114 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,736 You don't have to edit an article from scratch and finish it all, 115 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,39 just adding an image, for example, 116 00:06:25,40 --> 00:06:28,920 is a very important help inside the encyclopedia. 117 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,80 I take care of my house, 118 00:06:30,80 --> 00:06:34,560 I clean, I cook, I wash the clothes, I take my daughters to school, to her activities 119 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,400 I work, I attend my patients, 120 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,360 and at night, after my daughters went to bed 121 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,840 I have free time. Then I start editing. 122 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,800 It is nice building it together, 123 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,520 and the fact that everyone can contribute, 124 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,39 even by correcting a tilde on an article. 125 00:06:56,40 --> 00:06:58,960 Most people believe they don't have anything to say, 126 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,587 but most of the people have everything to say. 127 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:05,39 Collaboration is natural, 128 00:07:05,40 --> 00:07:07,720 and then, the miracle is that collaboratively, 129 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,80 millions of little ants that didn't know that there were other little ants, 130 00:07:12,80 --> 00:07:15,479 end up creating an excellent common work 131 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,560 There is data, we must distribute and share it. 132 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,760 Knowledge added from all over the world, 133 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,599 with a lot of data that perhaps you couldn't have accessed otherwise. 134 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,320 Knowledge has to reach everyone, 135 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,960 I know that an article that I write in Wikipedia is going to be read worldwide. 136 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,919 We are hundreds of thousands of people creating it. 137 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:43,120 The simple fact of collaborating makes it possible. 138 00:07:43,362 --> 00:07:45,880 We are a lot of common people 139 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,840 that has been trying for a long time to carry 140 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,719 the collective effort in pursuit of the biggest knowledge of the world, 141 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,680 that is the most impressive of all.