Jimmy Wales

I started watching an interview. Jimmy was being bombarded with so many dubious questions. The interviewer was trying to make Jimmy’s creation, Wikipedia, seems like a huge mistake, once the children was just copying and pasting its content, without reading properly, and learn. Jimmy answer back with a question: Which marks are these children obtaining? Probably F or E. So, don’t blame me.

Jimmy sees Wikipedia like a traditional encyclopedia with fresh new information. It is always being updated, and when not too accurate, the Wiki’s staff keep on working to correct the errors and fake news. Another point that Jimmy emphasizes is that we must learn how to be critical about all the information we receive daily, coming from Wikipedia or not.

When he idealized Wikipedia, he was claiming for a world in which every single person on the planet could have free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

I also watched to a new Wiki program that is creating free offline Wikipedia access to countries in Africa, where broadband connection is not always available or its too expansive. That’s really wonderful!