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All of you would most likely know Wikipedia,
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the sixth most visited webpage in the world,
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an encyclopedia available to everyone for free,
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and under the free licence.
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It is available in more than 250 languages,
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English, French, Spanish, Russian...
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... as well as in Hungarian or Finnish,...
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Quechua, Swahili and also in Czech.
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Wikipedia is unique also for a fact,
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that it is a community project.
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In many years the volunteers have created various concepts,
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that made Wikipedia what it is now.
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And I would like to explain some of them.
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Wikipedia is free encyclopedia, which means that anyone can edit.
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Anyone can add any content.
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However, not "just any" content,
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as the field of Wikipedia is defined.
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As a community project,
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it requires a certain level of collaboration,
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but it is not a democracy,
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nor bureaucracy,
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or a complex project that should bring various rules or regulations.
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It is also not a place for advertisements and ads are very often removed.
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Wikipedia is popular and various subjects would like to place their ads there.
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It is also uncensored,
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not being controlled by any government or organization.
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Wikipedia is here for all of us.
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The Wikipedia community created various policies,
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and guidelines, that define or help
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how to cooperate so we can write a good encyclopedia
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and also recommendations that can give us an advice,
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or an explanation what is acceptable
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and what is not; what shouldn't be on Wikipedia.
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but these are not that hard to cope with.
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Neutral Point of View mean,
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that all views of the subject of the article are represented,
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The texts are thus not biased,
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nor favoring political views.
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It is one of the core principles of Wikipedia.
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NPOV stands for Neutral Point of View,
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and it is exactly what makes Wikipedia what it is,
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why people all around the world can trust Wikipedia.
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COPYVIO. This abbreviation comes from English "Copyright violation",
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Wikipedia is available under the Creative commons licence,
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a licence, that allows the content to be shared,
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used and re-used,
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freely, without unnecessary limitations.
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If you meet the Copyvio abbreviation,
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this means that you see a text that is protected by copright,
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or used to be,
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and which is being removed,
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or was removed.
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Given the fact that the amount of these policies is rather large,
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one should be mentioned as well,
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This one is a crucial one:
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"Ignore all rules".
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In case that you can see that all policies or guidelines
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block you from contributing to Wikipedia,
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you can say, that all the guidelines,
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or recommendations are not that important after all.
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Having the project working, and having
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the content created is what matters.
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So in case there is a policy that makes it hard for you to write articles,
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Wikipedia guidelines are not the Constitution,
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or Geneva convention or any other strict document.
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These policies and guidelines should serve
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in a way so that every user should have
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a possibility to contribute to Wikipedia.
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Despite all this, it is not that complicate to edit Wikipedia.
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Many people do that, they like it,
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it is fun,
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and you can do it.
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Your first article can be about almost anything,
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anything that has an encyclopedic value,
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or is notable.
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And one more thing that should be added in the end,
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Be bold!
