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05/22/2007
Jimmy Wales
A conversation about Wikipedia with the co-founder
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A conversation about Wikipedia, web technology, and the future of search with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.
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Mr. Wales...I'm eagerly waiting for your future plan of releasing better search engine better than Google. I know Wikipedia is the future of internet world. THANK YOU.
I agree with Vikram Phatak. Wikipedia is possibly the worst thing that the internet has generated. My experience with certain articles has been terrible, to say the least. In fact, I was so horrified to read the nonsensical content that was being presented as historical fact that I literally fell into a mild depression. Furthermore, it is controlled by a select few over-exuberant and in many cases ill-informed goblins. For further reading on just how terrible the entire concept is, which I think is an oxymoron, for how can a source of truth undergo mutation repeatedly only to be restored by a few dictatorial goblins more concerned about control than content veritably deliver truth? check out: http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-edemocracy/wikipedia_bias_3621.jsp http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html
While Jimmy talks a good game about "trust" and "transparency", Wikipedia has neither. Wikipedia cannot be trusted since the content is prone to errors; average people are publishing and moderating, under the unproven theory of "group knowledge" making Wikipedia prone to inaccuracies. As far as transparency - there is no "appeal" system, so that if a Wikipedia moderator "gets it wrong" there is no way to correct the moderator. I personally do not like the idea nameless, faceless individuals deciding on what constitutes knowledge. Especially when there is no penalty for being inaccurate...
Wiki is the future.
I think Mr. Wales told Bill Gates that MSN search didn't work very well.
Anyone recall what Mr Wales said he told Bill Gates?
Quoting Jimmy Wales from his interview in the Fast Company magazine: "I trust Google reasonably well," he says, "but that's like saying you have a favorite politician. I trust this politician, but I still want the city council to meet publicly. I still want a certain transparency in how government is run, even if you trust the person who's in charge now." --END QUOTE-- Full interview: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/114/features-why-is-this-man-smiling.html I agree completely. In the end, corporations don't have a conscience and it is at one's own peril to trust them blindly. Go Jimbo! We are with you.
Thank you for your show and website. I have learned more and met more people from your show than any other source. THANK YOU