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It was needed a place
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to start adding knowledge
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openly
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so that it could get everywhere.
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It's not ok to put copyrights on data
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on information.
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Collaboration is a kind of miracle,
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a delirium that works.
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It is a kind of legacy
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for other people to see it.
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I am 27 years old.
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I am 16 year old
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I am a high school student
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I am 59 years old
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I am a union lawyer
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I am a psychoanalyst
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I study to be librarian
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I am a photographer
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I'm going to be a mother soon.
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I am dedicated to systems management
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and I am a Wikipedian.
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Many people believe
that behind Wikipedia
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there are thousands of employees
working and writing articles.
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Actually, people who build Wikipedia
are volunteers.
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I don't need
to see my name on an article
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I am happy
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knowing that there are people reading it
and finding it useful.
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It is the thrill of discovering
something that I didn't know
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and putting it there
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therefore now I know it.
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and so do others.
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We donate our time for this cause,
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to collaborate
with the knowledge of mankind.
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Is how everything works in Wikipedia,
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collaborating
with what you do in your home.
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My first article
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As a Wikipedia reader
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taking benefits
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from all the work
that other people put in it
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somehow I started to feel
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enthusiast for the possibility of
being able to do the same.
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I started poking around,
to see how it was,
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and I discovered that there was a button
named "Edit".
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And I thought, let's see
what this is about.
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My first edition
was creating an article,
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and I had worked
very hard on it.
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When I uploaded it,
a few minutes after
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it was marked as
needing to be "wikified".
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It means, having
the wiki style and format
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I am from "Laferrere",
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since there was no article
about the city,
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I had the great idea
to copy and paste
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what was
on the official website of the city.
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They deleted the article
and sent me a huge message
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with the forbidden things
on Wikipedia, so I thought:
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"Ah! this wasn't so simple."
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I realized
how committed
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this tool was.
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And it was like, now I will take it
as a personal challenge,
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I want to do this.
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So I started
reading the tutorials
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about how the encyclopedia works.
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At first,
and I think it still happens,
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one may think that Wikipedia is a place
where you can write that you think.
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And Wikipedia, despite having
a collaborative and open aspect,
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it is still an encyclopedia,
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and as such,
it has many rules to follow.
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First, find a source,
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and that source must be reliable.
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References
are very important because
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they ensure
that the information is true
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and not an invention of the editor.
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Search the bibliography,
write according to what you have read
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or investigated.
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When I edit,
I don't write my personal opinions.
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A little research
has to be done always before
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defending a certain point of view.
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And so, achievements were made
showing the different facets
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good things, bad things
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and different kind of views
on a single topic.
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You don't write an article alone,
you write in group.
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There will always be other people
criticizing and improving it,
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giving opinions.
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In the beginning
we didn't know each other,
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we were all anonymous,
only user names,
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ignoring even
if we were from Argentina or not.
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Who would be?
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It would be man, woman,
young, old?
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When you meet them one
face to face is like wow,
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you end up making friends.
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And then you start to know
the human side of each one
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and it is really interesting to suddenly
know each other.
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We make edit-a-thons,
meetings
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to edit about a special
article
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or subject of our interest.
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We help others
learn how to edit
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And it is the best starting point
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for you to continue
editing by yourself.
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Suddenly, you are no longer
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sitting by yourself at home
on a Sunday afternoon editing.
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Unexpectedly,
an institution appeared
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and brought all
of us together.
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The Wikimedia Foundation
intends to make
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all of its projects known,
and there are many of them.
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There is Wikimedia, Wikipedia,
Wikiquotes, Wikinews, Wiktionary.
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Many projects
with this common ideology
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of collaborative construction
and free knowledge.
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Wikimedia Commons is a
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data library
mostly photographs.
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And you can put them
on the articles
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with the creative commons license.
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In Wikipedia
you can see really long articles,
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but they all started with a phrase.
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You don't have to edit
an article from scratch and finish it all,
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just adding an image, for example,
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is a very important help
inside the encyclopedia.
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I take care of my house,
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I clean, I cook, I wash the clothes,
I take my daughters to school, to her activities
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I work, I attend my patients,
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and at night, after
my daughters went to bed
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I have free time.
Then I start editing.
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It is nice
building it together,
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and the fact that everyone
can contribute,
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even by correcting
a tilde on an article.
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Most people believe
they don't have anything to say,
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but most of the people
have everything to say.
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Collaboration is natural,
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and then, the miracle
is that collaboratively,
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millions of little ants
that didn't know that there were other little ants,
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end up creating
an excellent common work
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There is data,
we must distribute and share it.
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Knowledge added
from all over the world,
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with a lot of data that perhaps you
couldn't have accessed otherwise.
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Knowledge has to reach everyone,
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I know that an article that I write
in Wikipedia is going to be read worldwide.
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We are hundreds of thousands of people
creating it.
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The simple fact of collaborating
makes it possible.
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We are a lot
of common people
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that has been trying for
a long time to carry
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the collective effort
in pursuit of the biggest knowledge of the world,
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that is
the most impressive of all.
