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The State of Wikipedia

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

The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it's also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today.

The fourth video in our the "State of" series, JESS3 is proud to release The State of Wikipedia as our first video of 2011. And, as if it weren't good enough, the video features none other than one of the co-founders himself, Jimmy Wales, as the narrator.

http://jess3.com/the-state-of-wikipedia
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
03:43
AlHasan Muhammad Ali added a translation

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