The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia, a revolutionary platform that democratizes access to information. This interview reveals his leadership style as a visionary who is deeply concerned with the integrity of information in the digital age and the role of technology in shaping public discourse.
“Yeah, no, I mean, for sure. To take this area of discussion seriously is to say, yeah, you know what? Actually, that is a big part of what Wikipedians spend their time grappling with, is to say, you know, how do we figure out whether a less popular view is pseudoscience?”
“Yeah, so I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on. Obviously, the technologies move very quickly in the last six months and looks poised to do so for some time to come. So first things first, I mean, part of our philosophy is the open licensing, the free licensing, the idea that this is what we're here for.”
“Know then it seemed quite big. I mean, we knew at that time that it was nowhere near complete. I remember at Wikimania in Harvard when we did our annual conference there in Boston, someone who had come to the conference from Poland had brought along with him a small encyclopedia, a single volume encyclopedia of biographies.”
“Yeah, I mean, it's actually. An example. So we don't generally use my picture and the banners anymore on Wikipedia, but we did. And then we did an experiment one year where we tried other people's pictures. So one of our developers. And one got lovely, very sweet guy.”
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