Wikipedia is Learning: Talking with Jimmy Wales

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 14, 2009, 10:02 AM

My conversational tour with Information Age visionaries continues today at Wikimedia Foundation, with co-founder Jimmy Wales. At its beginning, even Wales didn't think Wikipedia would amount to much. No one, not even the most radical science fiction writer, would have conceived, even five years ago, that volunteers worldwide, without remuneration, would create the biggest, most remarkable encyclopedia in human history.