Jimmy Wales - Keeping Wikipedia Politically Neutral

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=459

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses how a site with an open editorial policy is able to maintain political neutrality in its articles.

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Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture

Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embracing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, examines how vision drives and defines that project and its strategy - and how it fits into the even larger world and prospects of "free culture."

"The design of Wikipedia," said its founder and president Jimmy Wales, "is the design of community."

When Wikipedia was started in 2001, all of its technology and software elements had been around since 1995. Its innovation was entirely social - free licensing of content, neutral point of view, and total openness to participants, especially new ones. The core engine of Wikipedia, as a result, is "a community of thoughtful users, a few hundred volunteers who know each other and work to guarantee the quality and integrity of the work."

Wikipedia, already enormous, continues to accelerate its growth. It is one of the top 20 websites, with 5 billion page views monthly. As an encyclopedia, it is larger than Britannica and Encarta combined and is now in so many languages, only 1/3 of the total Wikipedia is in English. When Wales went to Taiwan last week, strangers recognized him on the train, and 1,200 came to his talk. (One attraction to a Chinese audience is that Wikipedia takes the position of "no compromise with censors, ever.")

The free licensing of Wikipedia content means that it is free to copy, free to modify, free to redistribute, and free to redistribute in modified forms, with attribution links. This is in service to the Wikipedia vision "to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language." One byproduct is that Wikipedia's success is helping shift the terms of the copyright debate, in a public-good direction - The Long Now Foundation

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[ronjgoldman]

What rubbish. There is a distinct slant toward Judaism, Israel, Zionism and Jews in the entire site.

[wikipedosuk]

WIKIPEDOIA NEUTRAL?LOL!THATS JOKE OF DECADE!WHEN JIMBO DOES APEAL ITS BASICALY HE IS BEGGER BEGGING SHAMEFULY CONSTANTLY FOR DOUGH ITS SICKENIN!Fuk THIS FOO N HIS WIKIPEDO ADMINISTRATORS WIKIDIOTS SLAVES!YO CHECK TRUTH ON WIKIPEDOIA BOOKMARK WIKIPEDIA-WATCH ORG CHEK ALL LINX!

[annielimyz]

For the founder of one of the most powerful websites in the world, Jimmy Wales is pretty low key.

[cloudbusterman]

Wales must stop academics censoring deified words(values) like “Secular” by firewalling such pages from their social constructions

For this example new Castigatores are embarrassed that Virgil’s Trojan-Titanic Fall of Homerica virtue scheme sickled off use of ends-based Testimonials of Heaven/Olympus. This treason coup was called Secular in ~17BC: Augustus’ Aeneid/amartas deified Emperor cult purged Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey: the original Cosmic dualism in Matthew12.40

∴ Secular ≣ Fall of Homerica

[ahmedelmoon]

Neutral ? Yea right , like taking the lie of ''Israeli tactical victory'' from Israeli sources and putting it as the result of Yom Kippur war.

[uselesswikipeedos]

neutral, hell no, thats cover up its bs!RIGHT ON FUCK THESE BASTARDS BOOKMARK ALL WIKIPEDIA-WATCH ORG!

[KingCast65]

Watch this video at KingCast65 Channel

Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia = bought & sold hypocrites who cannot be trusted

[swtrooper11]

@john48917 He is jew.

[arnomelez]

Jimmy why don't you go to your Armenian masters to beg money for. They can help you.Fortunately they found a dog like you to bark whenever they want for their filthy propoganda. They are very lucky.

[TheProgressistViewer]

@Zarlok2 LOL ur a fucking lunatic....