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The birth of Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales · TED

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About

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.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2005
Speaker
Jimmy Wales
Year
2005
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Business and management
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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