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An Interview with Wikipedia's Jimbo Wales

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the friendly-interviews dept.

Raul654 writes "The Wikipedia Signpost, Wikipedia's weekly in-house publication, is this week featuring an interview with Jimbo Wales. The questions, which were submitted by Wikipedia regulars, hit on subjects related to the Foundation, the budgeting and legal issues, the blocking of Wikipedia in China, as well as where Jimbo sees Wikipedia in the future."

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  1. Re:Balkanization Risk as Wiki Grows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, Wikipedia has had policies that strive to prevent this for a long time. So far, they seem to be working very well. Here are some of them:

    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal _attacks
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiabili ty
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good _faith
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipe dia_is_not

    There is no indication that Wikipedia is turning into a trollfest. Of course, some subjects like the Muhammad cartoons cause a great deal of debate, but for the most part it is focused on writing an Encyclopedia, not a debate club. As it should be.