#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(05:10) - Origin story of Wikipedia
(11:14) - Design of Wikipedia
(18:07) - Number of articles on Wikipedia
(24:18) - Wikipedia pages for living persons
(45:11) - ChatGPT
(58:42) - Wikipedia's political bias
(1:04:46) - Conspiracy theories
(1:17:51) - Facebook
(1:26:09) - Twitter
(1:46:45) - Building Wikipedia
(2:01:18) - Wikipedia funding
(2:12:38) - ChatGPT vs Wikipedia
(2:17:19) - Larry Sanger
(2:22:51) - Twitter files
(2:25:43) - Government and censorship
(2:40:07) - Adolf Hitler's Wikipedia page
(2:51:49) - Future of Wikipedia
(3:03:51) - Advice for young people
(3:11:13) - Meaning of life
