at the conference contributors could attend seminars on writing computers cameras and photography they get together cost seventy five thousand euros the host with the media germany says it was money well spent. one aim is to improve wiki pedia improve the articles and ensure overall quality but the conference is also a nice opportunity for contributors who often work together online to meet live in face to face which is run by wickham media and its headquarters for germany are in berlin media germany has a staff of one hundred core task is to ensure the quality of the encyclopedia entries and improve it. they develop procedures to resolve conflicts over content. like about the entry on george w. bush apparently it s undergone forty thousand changes. and.
there are structures within wiki pedia administrators who mediate indisputable content. we investigate who is behind which opinions. and if that doesn t work we have an arbitration committee within a wiki pedia you know how to. work a pedia is financed by donations last year in germany alone four hundred thousand people contributed eight point six million euros it s central to its mission for work a pedia to be financially independent of any corporate or political influence. and cyclopedia aims to be neutral and objective behind wiki pedia there s a charitable not for profit foundation. if it had advertising an aim to make a profit it would be totally different nobody would trust wikipedia or its content and put it in. the organization s model members of the public can
a great place to meet. well i was a very early reader learned to require early on my house was full of books we had encyclopedias at home and i really loved my world book encyclopedia early in my career i was a futures and options trader in chicago. i thought it was really fun and interesting it was very quantitative. a lot of mathematics and so forth i really enjoyed that but i also got really interested in the internet really excited by the internet when i saw. well as a hobby i was working on writing a web browser. where else continue developing wiki pedia while you were still working in finance in chicago that s where he made his first million. today wells is a man of independent means and lives with his family in london we keep pedia is now the world s fifth most popular web site does he regret founding it as
institutions go. maybe there s a new institutions. wiki pedia is putting ever more multimedia content on the web music images and maps for example well things that piques uses curiosity which in turn leads them to buy books to learn more. about it but i don t think that will he pedia replace his books textbooks or in-depth things it s a supplement to it and it s a supplement in the same way that i wouldn t think that. britannica brockhouse could replace. shakespeare it s one thing to go and read about shakespeare and understand sort of a broad background information and so forth but you really need to grapple with the text according to wales books and wiki pedia pursue the same goal to enlighten and inform what you think would be a life time or can be or could be a lot of money i mean for me it s really this is my life s work and i have
you are right. i think we all try to look for, i think of it as the harris-wofford-dig thornbu harris-wofford-dick thornburg moment in a special election in 91 where wofford wins in pennsylvania with james carval working for him, talking about health care. it was seen as a moment, a crack in the reagan-bush dynasty and set up clinton. that s kind of the one can you point to in many ways. republicans have held on to a lot of these special elections. i think any time we tried to generalize from a particular to go to your point, i think we have to remind ourselves, donald trump is president. right. so, therefore, any rational model is fundamentally broken. it s fun to listen to viewers. you can hear them typing, when john meacham speaks racing to wiki pedia.