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Wikipedia’s Founder on Trust and Not Being “Woke-ipedia”

Wikipedia’s Founder on Trust and Not Being “Woke-ipedia”

Update: 2025-12-11
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation and the author of The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last (Crown Currency, 2025), talks about how Wikipedia was able to rely on the "wisdom of the crowd" even as distrust climbed in the larger culture.

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Wikipedia’s Founder on Trust and Not Being “Woke-ipedia”

Wikipedia’s Founder on Trust and Not Being “Woke-ipedia”

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