Knowledge Commons, Community Wisdom, Distributed and decentralized collaboration, Creative Commons and most importantly Free Knowledge (via digital means) are the most radical terminologies which have emanated in the past decade, and have revolutionized the World and the World Wide Web.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia has been the mascot and the supreme manifestation of all these ideologies which were presumed to be infeasible. Wikipedia has become synonymous to the term
Encyclopaedia, and more so to Free and Community churned knowledge.
Bangalore Wikipedians celebrated Ten years of Wikipedia by organizing a day full of talks,events and Wiki evangelism. The celebration was at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), IISc in Bangalore.
As, I was not present the entire day, I'm not in a position to chronicle the entire event. Here are few pictures from the event depicting the overall spirit of the celebration.
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| A tech talk on API's for Wiki |
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| One of the best ideas ever |
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| Wiki Jerseys |
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| Happy birthday Wikipedia |
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| Jimmy Wales in his live address from London |
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| Lawrence Liang giving his encrypted talk! |
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| Wikipedians :) |
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