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Sunday, August 23, 2015

How And Why Does Wikipedia Work?

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Why We Collaborate.

Why We Collaborate

About Jimmy Wales' TEDTalk
Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating to create a self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
About Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is one of the founders of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting online encyclopedia anyone can edit. After Wikipedia's launch in 2001, it became one of the most used repositories of knowledge on the planet, with more than one million articles in English and hundreds of thousands in dozens of other languages, all freely available.
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