That's a talk that Wikipedia founder and Wikia Owner, Jimmy Wales, will be giving at the next Free Culture @ NYU Series on Wednesday, January 31st. I'll be there, for sure.
Tim O'Reilly had a lot to say about Wikipedia at Google's Un-bound event, including its comparison to Britannica, in terms of relevance (imagine on a graph Wikipedia on a constant rise, vs. Britannica which is literally, flatlined).
This (via Laura) is Mr. O'Reilly explaining a chart of activity representing the evolution of an entry in Wikipedia, based on the number of changes, edits, and additions [this happens to be a depiction of the Wikipedia entry for Evolution]:
Tim O'Reilly at Google's Un-bound conference in NYC (1/18/07)
There's a reason Wikipedia is one of the world's most influential brands (right behind Google and Apple, and hand-in-hand with You Tube) ... and it has everything to do with free culture.
he was pleased with the rrpgoess of the failed Wikia Search project, but that economic conditions sapped its viability. My experience is that running a user-fed website is actually rather cheap. I run one with over 40,000 user-generated pages, and it costs about $240 a year. An objective reporter may have followed up with a question like, Approximately how much was the Wikia Search project costing your company, if it was being built mostly by volunteer contributors? Or, Are your other Wikia wikis operating in the black, or are they also experiencing this advertising drought you mention? Don't get me wrong. You're charming, Abby. I'm just disappointed with the online media's inability to forcefully challenge someone whom many critics (not just me) have concluded is an intellectual con-artist whose biggest financial success is (ironically, considering your venue) speaking tour fees.
Posted by: Raymundo | April 04, 2012 at 07:45 PM
You write well will be waiting for your new publications.
Posted by: Antivirus_man | December 05, 2010 at 03:09 AM