A new challenge is making Wikipedia available to the developing world as well.
According to one survey we have about twice the proportion of PHDs
All the site content is decided by Wikipedia's volunteer contributors.
And in the English Wikipedia almost 50% have no religion,
As Wikipedia enters its second decade,
As a founder of Nupedia
As any reader knows, some articles are very good,
As of 2010
But only one person had final publishing authority
But there is more to it than that.
But you might be surprised to learn
I led the group to establish a farm team of sources
I still lead the community and the Wikipedia foundation
In 2003 I created a Wikipedia foundation
It happened to be the perfect way
It’ll be fair to say that most Wikipedians are not average.
It’s incredible what has been accomplished already,
More daily centers to speed up Wikipedia worldwide,
One reason may be is that editing a single page is easy,
Other language additions appeared quickly,
Over time as many as 1.2 million people have contributed to Wikipedia.
Some from corporations and institutions,
Soon enough Nupedia couldn’t keep up
That was called Nupedia,
The Wikipedia foundation has no editorial role whatsoever.
The community is defined by more than two hundred combined policies,
The foundation is a charity, and runs entirely on donations.
The foundation is also growing Wikipedia’s presence worldwide.
The foundation's job is to keep the service running in the right zone.
There’s never been anything like Wikipedia before,
We used a new software platform
We were creating not just a free content encyclopedia,
Who does edit Wikipedia?
Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary in January 2011,
Wikipedia gets almost 400 million visitors every month,
Wikipedia is already very popular in the west and in the north.
Wikipedia is one of the most important websites on the Internet today.
Wikipedia still needs a lot of work.
Yet, this is a new challenge,
and 14.6% of French editors claim to believe in Pastafarianism.
and Wikipedia took center stage.
and even bringing its first office outside the US to India.
and in these 10 years it has become one of the most popular websites in the world.
and it future horizon is very, very long.
and it was soon followed by sister projects
and it wasn’t quite taking off.
and the list of sites visited more often
but Wikipedia is far from done.
but a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
but getting heavily involved is harder.
but making it better,
but some are not.
but the vast majority from its millions of editors and readers.
committees, and noticeboards, wikiprojects and more.
compared to the general public.
for future Nupedia articles.
guidelines and essays,
helps us to make Wikipedia what it is today.
in all Wikipedia in all languages.
is very short and very famous.
it’s up to all of us to make sure that it gets even better.
like Wikisource, Wikinews and Wiktionary.
more accurate,
more citations,
not just broad but deep.
not just building an encyclopedia from scratch,
of another online encyclopaedia.
over 270 on the last count,
that it began as a side project
the wiki, Wikipedia.
there are over 11 million monthly edits
to be a traditional encyclopedia
to ensure that Wikipedia could keep up with its own growth.
to make collaboration easy,
to say nothing of the discussions, reviews,
to write mini pages very quickly.
written by experts free and online.