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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. Quality standards by ChristopherX · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The interview mentions the need for quality content. If not already wiki should be using automated tools to flag potentially low quality articles.

    1. Use a static analyzer to detect large amounts of grammatical errors, etc.

    2. Look for articles outside the normal word/source ratio.