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Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia

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 ...  
 
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altairtime (3 hours ago) Show Hide
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My favorite source on the internet! It is so clutter free and non-biased -not ever trying to urge me to buy something.
jflash214 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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really amazing , I had know idea it was this bare bones.
BengalG3 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Man I freaking LOVE this guy. If I wish can get this big like him..
livardo (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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back then it was top 50.. now is top 10! Alexa lists Wikipedia as #6. I love Wikipedia. A game I like to play is to hit the Random Wikipedia Article until something I'm familiar with comes up.
omegavalerius (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Its at 3 million articles in English at the moment I think and working to the best of my knowledge pretty well.
sciencectn (1 month ago) Show Hide
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No, you've got it all wrong. Feeding trolls would be like "STFU, YOU'RE AN IDIOT" or "You're really immature". Trolls want inflammatory negative attention.
bobbbbbable (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I can't see why easalert88's "STOP FAGGOT" and "GO TO HELL" are not inflammatory. They certainly make me want to fight back.
sciencectn (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I didn't notice those. I thought you were referring to my comment.

Also, I think you'd be better suited at 4chan, not Youtube.
bobbbbbable (1 month ago) Show Hide
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And one last word, I'm going to post a libelous comment about Jimmy Wales in the Sandbox in less than an hour, it will probably say something about me making him give me head and about him having erectile dysfunction. Be ready for a wave of sandbox attacks at around 12:45 Central Time by a user named Bobbible666.
GHOSTSHADOW1 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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whats going on?

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