The State of Wikipedia
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Not SyncedA new challenge is making Wikipedia available to the developing world as well.
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Not SyncedAccording to one survey we have about twice the proportion of PHDs
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Not SyncedAll the site content is decided by Wikipedia's volunteer contributors.
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Not SyncedAnd in the English Wikipedia almost 50% have no religion,
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Not SyncedAs Wikipedia enters its second decade,
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Not SyncedAs a founder of Nupedia
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Not SyncedAs any reader knows, some articles are very good,
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Not SyncedAs of 2010
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Not SyncedBut only one person had final publishing authority
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Not SyncedBut there is more to it than that.
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Not SyncedBut you might be surprised to learn
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Not SyncedI led the group to establish a farm team of sources
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Not SyncedI still lead the community and the Wikipedia foundation
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Not SyncedIn 2003 I created a Wikipedia foundation
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Not SyncedIt happened to be the perfect way
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Not SyncedIt’ll be fair to say that most Wikipedians are not average.
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Not SyncedIt’s incredible what has been accomplished already,
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Not SyncedMore daily centers to speed up Wikipedia worldwide,
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Not SyncedOne reason may be is that editing a single page is easy,
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Not SyncedOther language additions appeared quickly,
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Not SyncedOver time as many as 1.2 million people have contributed to Wikipedia.
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Not SyncedSome from corporations and institutions,
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Not SyncedSoon enough Nupedia couldn’t keep up
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Not SyncedThat was called Nupedia,
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Not SyncedThe Wikipedia foundation has no editorial role whatsoever.
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Not SyncedThe community is defined by more than two hundred combined policies,
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Not SyncedThe foundation is a charity, and runs entirely on donations.
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Not SyncedThe foundation is also growing Wikipedia’s presence worldwide.
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Not SyncedThe foundation's job is to keep the service running in the right zone.
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Not SyncedThere’s never been anything like Wikipedia before,
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Not SyncedWe used a new software platform
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Not SyncedWe were creating not just a free content encyclopedia,
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Not SyncedWho does edit Wikipedia?
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Not SyncedWikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary in January 2011,
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Not SyncedWikipedia gets almost 400 million visitors every month,
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Not SyncedWikipedia is already very popular in the west and in the north.
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Not SyncedWikipedia is one of the most important websites on the Internet today.
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Not SyncedWikipedia still needs a lot of work.
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Not SyncedYet, this is a new challenge,
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Not Syncedand 14.6% of French editors claim to believe in Pastafarianism.
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Not Syncedand Wikipedia took center stage.
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Not Syncedand even bringing its first office outside the US to India.
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Not Syncedand in these 10 years it has become one of the most popular websites in the world.
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Not Syncedand it future horizon is very, very long.
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Not Syncedand it was soon followed by sister projects
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Not Syncedand it wasn’t quite taking off.
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Not Syncedand the list of sites visited more often
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Not Syncedbut Wikipedia is far from done.
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Not Syncedbut a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Not Syncedbut getting heavily involved is harder.
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Not Syncedbut making it better,
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Not Syncedbut some are not.
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Not Syncedbut the vast majority from its millions of editors and readers.
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Not Syncedcommittees, and noticeboards, wikiprojects and more.
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Not Syncedcompared to the general public.
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Not Syncedfor future Nupedia articles.
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Not Syncedguidelines and essays,
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Not Syncedhelps us to make Wikipedia what it is today.
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Not Syncedin all Wikipedia in all languages.
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Not Syncedis very short and very famous.
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Not Syncedit’s up to all of us to make sure that it gets even better.
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Not Syncedlike Wikisource, Wikinews and Wiktionary.
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Not Syncedmore accurate,
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Not Syncedmore citations,
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Not Syncednot just broad but deep.
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Not Syncednot just building an encyclopedia from scratch,
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Not Syncedof another online encyclopaedia.
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Not Syncedover 270 on the last count,
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Not Syncedthat it began as a side project
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Not Syncedthe wiki, Wikipedia.
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Not Syncedthere are over 11 million monthly edits
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Not Syncedto be a traditional encyclopedia
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Not Syncedto ensure that Wikipedia could keep up with its own growth.
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Not Syncedto make collaboration easy,
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Not Syncedto say nothing of the discussions, reviews,
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Not Syncedto write mini pages very quickly.
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Not Syncedwritten by experts free and online.
- Title:
- The State of Wikipedia
- Description:
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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
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 03:43