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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Interview

Wikipedia is often a source of debate — Can users trust “facts” defined, edited and policed by the Internet community?

Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur did a good audio interview with Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, this week. Check out Net at Night podcast episode 13.

It cost a million dollars to run Wikipedia last year, most of that being hosting and bandwidth costs. That is expected to climb to 2.5 million.

Questions answered include:

• Can you use Wikipedia as a reliable source?
  Use it as a general guide to other information, but not as your sole source.
• Wikipedia versus Encyclopedia Britannica?
  Even Encyclopedia Britannica is riddled with errors. Study results.
• Should you edit entries about yourself?
  If you are popular enough to have an entry about yourself and there are factual errors, you may want to be extremely cautious about editing your info. Several alternative suggestions are discussed in the interview.
• Will they begin to run advertising on the site?
  Rather than taking advertising, they continue to depend on community donations. But that may have to change in the future.

Enjoy.
-Roland