Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
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Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that revolutionized global access to information.
On the island
Eight records
It's such a fantastic classic song and of course I am from Alabama.
Mötley Crüe was the very first band that I ever saw live and in concert with my great friend Terry.
My father used to sing this song around the house and I have these great memories of being in the car with Dad…
My favorite line in this song is, No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. And it's about intellectual independence.
we at the Wikimedia Foundation we've decided to file a lawsuit against the NSA. So that definitely puts you in a fight the power type of move.
Violin Concerto in A minorFavourite
This is a piece that my fourteen year old daughter recently had her first solo in her orchestra. So it's quite meaningful to me in that regard.
This is one that will be very familiar to anyone who is a parent of the under five-year-old set, particularly girls.
I chose this recently. My wife and I went with some friends to Lucky Voice, the karaoke place, and … we had such a fantastic fun time doing it that I just had to pick it.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:46What do you make of the pace of change and the central role that technology has in the way we understand the world we live in?
if you think about an eighteen, nineteen year old, so someone who's just on the verge of entering university, Wikipedia has been there since they were learning how to read. … [F]or that generation coming up, Wikipedia is the air that we breathe or the water that we swim in. It's just part of the environment.
Presenter asks
2:27Are you somebody who finds the idea of making money out of information inherently distasteful?
Not at all. Not at all. I am very much an entrepreneur and a business person at heart. I think there's nothing wrong with making money as long as you're doing it honestly, which is not necessarily what happens in every situation these days.
Presenter asks
7:00What advice do you give Wikipedia users in terms of accuracy?
Check the sources. If we've done our job correctly, we tell you some information, but we also tell you where we got it from, and you can click through and go and get that source. And if you see something that's wrong, tell us. Help us. We're trying to make it better. … [When] we look at the best research that's been done on the accuracy of Wikipedia, it's on a par with traditional encyclopedias. … [I]t's not 100 million people adding one sentence each. There's a few thousand people, three to five, we might say, who are really the core community …
The keepsakes
The luxury
Presenter asks
15:16You won a full scholarship to university but lost it after the first year. What happened?
I drove around that year listening to Motley Crew and was that sound? … that was pretty much it. … I was very young. I graduated from high school when I was sixteen and I was quite immature. I should have had a gap year.
Presenter asks
19:37How were you as a manager and organizer?
No, I I'm a pretty terrible manager actually. And it's it's one of the things that I learned the hard way in that period that I need good management around me to actually organize the work and get things done. I tend to go off and just start building and working and doing things and sort of talking about big visions. But in terms of the actual day-to-day practicalities of getting things done in a group of people, I need help with that. I'm just not very good at it.
Presenter asks
25:41Given that you don't measure your success in private jets, how do you measure your success?
I that's the question just boggles my mind. I don't think in those terms, so I never really measured my success. It's just not the kind of thing that I do. I'm just me and I do my stuff. And I guess I would say if I had to, I measure my success as to whether or not what I've done is interesting, whether it's been something useful and productive and that sort of thing.
“information wants to be free and information wants to be expensive.”
“the real tough battles in the community end up being about quite obscure editorial matters oftentimes. We had to have an arbitration committee case about different punctuation styles.”
“I remember when when I was young that we lived close enough that sometimes the windows would rattle when they were testing the Saturn V rockets and things like that.”
“I always say that I'm a pathologically optimistic person, meaning I always think everything's going to be fine and work out great.”
“when people look back on this era, they'll point to Wikipedia as something good about this era, that a group of people got together as volunteers and gave this incredible gift to the world, just out of sheer love of knowledge.”
“we're moving to an era where people can see other people as human beings. And that's really important.”