Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia

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http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Comments

  1. So, why are you not commercializing Wikipedia?
  2. Jimmy Wales looks like Kevin Costner's twin :P
  3. It is not normal. A lot of paid administrators blocking or censoring the contributors although they working very well and for free, because they are having the wrong matter even on Commons. They are blocking there by Russians and mostly West germans masses on users which are doing a good job. The result is, that these admins being directly honored by Wikimedia and get more power. If you take pictures of towns which are looking better than in the UK or the USA, you are getting blocked. They have lesser and lesser contributors with nouveau and pictures on Commons, compared to other younger photo sites for free, with faster upload tools and locating tools without complications.
  4. He has really scary eyes
  5. Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada  This TED talk is about a very different Wikipedia
  6. I wish Jimmy wales can list me on Wikipedia.....
  7. In all do Honest I do not think war on not having internet and families on board for whatever reason to be seems little bit smaller than what are expected to be.  I thought in all due honesty that people like to deserve something clean and not annoying from one head to another for everything else.  I would one day be like to be discovered on internet for something great and some famous to be related but I guess its all about telling real honest truth on whom the person are versus why they should only PLAY me instead of someone else and if at best I am not in completion with others but let alone be stand on whom I am not hearing it first.  I would rather be I or play me for change instead of others of for rest.  You know what I mean the best of whom I am asking in dear perch for reason....But Jimmy and his people on photo are cool looking and such.  JIMMY reminds me of a old friend's father whom cared about me in working with him in houses and such and who treated me as one of their own.  I would one day wish for Jimmy to write about me on Wikipedia as real instead of mentioning names and I take blames for which I do not understand the reasons and such.  I thank you and hope the rest of the forums to continue on with everything else  MONEY
  8. there are only two people one earth one body and second the pudge temple LOL wow
  9. "as some stalkers would say RT are no good and challenging thoughts and questions raised by such people should be deleted peremently due to the nature of their belief of coming back which do cause bad odor and problems and aweful stalks within own.  I would like you to take out RT out from the spot and please no more ISLAMIC world fundamental ideas speaking differently...I DO support the key astrum of what stays mean but you know what happens when people graduate from Cardozo do to people after they leave lol...OLD comments hahah
  10. I was dying from parasites in the liver. A book by Hulda Clark showed how to kill them with herbs where doctors had failed. Since Wikipedias article about Hulda is a terrible smear-attack, I wanted to add some balance to it. But every positive content I added about Hulda Clark was erased very quickly until I gave up. Today I read that Jimmy Wales is totally biased against natural cures.

    In my eyes, Wikipedia can not be trusted because its too biased.
  11. I really loved this man the way he did radical thinking and got the things which is used for reference as Encyclopedia of Britanica don't allow to get in... 
  12. what is he wearing? is that a Barong?
  13. I guess you can read the comment dates. Oh you wanted likes? Though luck.
  14. yep
  15. watching this in 2013?
  16. Wales is without question one of the most important pesons on the planet and in history.. He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. With his genius idea for a free and global library he has at the very least made knowledge accessible and exciting to explore. especially among the young. Wiki is not the be all of knowledge, but what an achievement that in such a short time he has educated the world basically in referencing Wiki about anything it seems. His legacy is astonishing.
  17. Jimmy Wales is a true saint, the man could easily be in the top 10 of Forbes list but he chose not to do that, but instead educate people. These are the kind of people that are very scarce in modern society.
  18. And today, it´s a bigger website!
  19. Herpes: I cured two kinds of herpes simplex in 1993. I now volunteer for the CureDrive - I help people cure all kinds of medically incurable diseases. Bayard 813 672-3419
  20. JIMMY WALES IS A CUNT! BURN BITCH


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Duration: 20m 49s

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