 I will start with introducing myself, so I am a computer science engineering student from Amrita University India. I am a mentor at FOSAT Amrita. We are a student club at the university which contributes to open source software. I developed in JavaScript, PHP and Python. I have been involved in the Wikipedia community since 2015. I was a Google summer of code student last year and then from then onwards I have been contributing to it. I was also a Google mentor for five students this year. Except that I try to make some products. I have been working with a startup called K-Pick and ThinkFoss. I will start with giving you an instance of what is seen with the university at current age. This is an image from Howard University from 2017. The students are sitting and the number of blackboards and a professor is teaching them. This was the image from 1960s. A similar kind of situation with less number of blackboards and less number of students with professors still teaching with the same methodology. This is an image from long back time from medieval period. Still a professor maybe is teaching with a group of students sitting around. The problem with what students face in the current situation is that they study from lot of different materials and before the exam they face problems with having their notes at different places. Maybe somewhere in the internet or at books, a different kind of books. A physics one book, physics two book. There are different reference materials they refer to. So we did a lot of research and we found out the solution for this problem is basically this. To have a collaborative area where you can put all your notes together and create a textbook. So what basically Wiki2Learn is? So Wiki2Learn is an open source project that aims to create free, accessible and collaborative textbooks to the whole world. So it provides a platform where students and teachers, researchers, academicians together can complete their complete reassemble their lecture notes and create it to their own way. They can create their textbooks in their personalized way. So why should you contribute to it? So we think it is really important that users contribute to the writing and the improvement of the content. Because unless and until the contents have been improving, the platform is of no use. So this is the only way any project can be successful and can grow. If the users don't contribute, eventually the project won't grow. So the best way of getting a platform to work is more than use users to contribute to it. Your contribution can be as small as it could be, but it is always fundamental. The size of contribution doesn't matter, but it matters that you contribute to it. So it's a very awesome community. We are an open source organization. So we are at very places. So we normally chat on Telegram. So we are very friendly community. Our community is mostly based at Europe, at least specifically. So this is how you get when someone joins. So this is how they welcome you. So it's educational. Since at the end of the day, when you are writing and summarizing your notes on a platform, it's the best way you can note to yourself which portion of the notes you couldn't understand, which portion of the classroom you understood and which you didn't understood. So the portion which you didn't understand, you can go back and refer to other materials and at the end of the day you can understand a bit of the portion. It's always fun and getting engaged with such a diverse community. You get to work with developers around the world and get to travel to the sprints and hackathons and the meets that they have. So this was an image from last QtCon. So basically we are a community under KD organization. So since KD has this QtCon and academy together, we collaborate with KD on our own sprints. So the first one is the founder himself. His name is Ricardo. He works at CERN. He works at CERN and the three of them basically works at CERN and they are master students of physics. Who can contribute? So I'm a university student. I have a lot of work. I don't have time for this. So writing and summarizing on Wikipedia as I said is the best way you can understand which portion of the class you didn't understand and which you understood clearly. So at the end of the day when you go back and write on Wikipedia, learn your notes which you didn't understand, you can refer to other material or you can talk to someone who can give you an insight on the portion which you didn't understand. I'm a professor. So we have collaborated with around 30 plus universities in Europe and in Europe the professors use it as a tool in the classroom. Basically what they do is they give their lecture notes on Wikipedia to learn and ask the students to keep their notes on Wikipedia as well. So they could understand which portion of the students they didn't understand of his lecture. So it helps in getting awareness about understanding of his each lesson and eventually which gives him valuable feedback of his lesson. So this is the way professors in different universities are using it. I'm a coder. So the back end of Wikipedia to learn is basically Media Wiki. We are supported by Wikimedia Foundation and the back end is on Media Wiki. It's basically PHP and PHP. So there are plenty of work to do on Media Wiki. We aren't contributing to Media Wiki core. We have our own version of Media Wiki and we do a lot of extensions except what you see on Wikipedia. So our portal is completely different from what is Wikipedia or Wiki or city or Wiki books. So we have our own portal and we have a lot of extension which are not available on Wikipedia. So we always need volunteers to contribute to the core of our project. Opportunities like Google Summer of Code, Season of KD and Google Codein. Since we are under KD organization, we get around Google Summer of Code slots for different projects which are related to Wikitlun of course and part of Media Wiki as well. Season of KD is a program similar to Google Summer of Code which is not payable but you get to work with developers for three months and if you complete the project you get some goodies from KD and the certificates. Google Codein is for pre-university students from age 13 to 17. We participate in Google Codein as well which we give small, small tasks for students to get involved with the open source community. So who makes Wikitlun? Since I said, as I said that KD and Wikimedia Foundation supporters and funds such KD are the sponsors. So our developer, our founder was basically a KD developer from 15 years, from last 15 years he's been contributing to KD and eventually he made Wikitlun a platform under KD. So by 15 years I don't mean he's too old. He started contributing at the age of 10 or 11 so he's very young. So we have collaborated with around 30 plus European universities five US universities with UCL London and two Indian universities as well. We are growing in Europe much because most of the students of our community are in Europe in Italy specifically. We have been one of the main sponsors of the Wikitlun is CERN. CERN is backing us with a lot of power. They give us their area to work on our office and to give sprints on our sprints happens at CERN itself. So every year at CERN we do a sprint of all the community there. Plus Consentium Gar is Italian which provides us the infrastructure. Our infrastructure is provided by Gar and many other colleges like UCL London, University of Barcelona, Winston University, we have collaborated with this many universities and students are regularly updating their material on the platform. I'd like to show a video if I can. Is there a Jack or how do you know? No, no, no. It's fine. It's okay. It's fine. You can play from your tower. The sound is fine. Most of the time I get this question, why Wikitlun? There are platforms like Wikibooks, Wikiversity powered by Wikimedia Foundation. Then why Wikitlun? The main problem with the platform like Wikibooks and Wikiversity is their software. The software behind them is quite clumsy and it's not easy for the students and researchers to work on it. So in Wikitlun you can create your own personalized textbooks by, suppose let's say I have a course at Princeton University of Physics 101 and a similar course at University of Barcelona of Physics 101. So both the courses are togetherly present at one platform and I want to take some part from Princeton as well as University of Barcelona. I can create my personalized textbook from that. So I can take both of the content and create my own textbook. So that's how we power the software. So that is not present in the Wikibooks and the Wikiversity. Plus Wikimedia Foundation is helping with providing us contacts of different universities and helping with that. We are a user group of Wikimedia Foundation. We are not directly involved with Wikimedia Foundation but they support us with different things. We are under KDE. Is there a particular reason why major contributions are in Italy? Because they started the founders and basically this project was started at University of Milano at Italy and six physics students and a professor. They had problems with sharing their notes. So they basically started with a wiki page, a normal wiki page and they eventually grew this community into Wikidolon. Since most of the contributors currently are in Italy most of the chapters are Italian but it is growing and growing since we have collaborated with different US universities as well. Have you done any collaborations with the Khan Academy? Not yet. So we are in touch with them. We are in touch with many courses like Khan Academy and as well as video lectures with the video mooks, basically with the mooks. If somebody has stuff that is already created for this and I am like there is all of these. And how do I make that available? So basically we, so most of the professors have their research papers and they work on latex format and stuff. So we have our importers from different of, we have specific software importers which can import from wiki pages with HTML which takes latex format and you can do it in our platform. So we have been receiving books from different researchers as well so that are also present in our platform. Do you have any of the best parts in the community works right now? Sure, sure. I will just catch you up. Make it run. Yeah, make it run. So I can just show you how it looks like. This is how the portal looks like. So basically when you make a course, you have an option to create a private or a public course. So when you do a private course, you can keep a private course until and unless you are, I am not getting that word. You are good with yourself that you want it to be public. So you can keep it as a private but that course is still available. You need to just give the URL to anyone and he can access it but without URL he can't access it. So it's private but not private as in you can't access it. So what most professors do is they create a private course and once the course for a semester has been completed, they keep it private and then they make it public. What is the requirement to run our own instance? So basically instance means... So basically this is a media wiki, it's a wiki page. So it's on the media wiki software. So basically run your own wiki page on that. So if you want to basically run wiki to learn, you have to do it. If you want to contribute as in running locally, if you mean that so there is steps to do that. Yeah, okay. So yeah, sure, sure. Do you mean you want to... Yeah, I got it. I'll just show you. Yeah, I guess he means that. So that's what media wiki does. So media wiki is the software which runs behind wiki to learn which helps you in creating wiki pages. Yeah. So for that we have a specific workshop after this talk at 230Rite for setting up media wiki and helping contribute to media wiki as well. We will be setting up the development version. But that will give you an insight on how to do that. This is where... oh sorry. So our project is also known as Github. It's github.com hash wiki to learn. So since it is on media wiki, most of the code we see on PHP and JavaScript. So yeah, any push? Yeah, so we are on that. We have only launched the first version. The second version we have been working on a review process where professors can review a specific material which someone edits. We have three badges for that. One will be the beginner, another will be the moderator and a tutor. So basically what moderator will do, it will moderates the content what is being uploaded there and if it feels it's correct it would be public otherwise if you want to keep it private you can do that. We are in touch with different professors which are helping us doing that.