App. Now, the keynote speakers at the third annual wikiconference, held in october in san diego, including the Wikimedia Foundation executive director. This is one hour 10 minutes. Right . All right, hi my name is katherine maher. The Wikimedia Foundation is a Nonprofit Foundation that host s and supports wikipedia and other free knowledge project. We are proud to work with many global organizations, the many global organizations and partners that support the community of wikimedians and the projects. I am so excited to be here for the third annual wiki conference in the United States, and the first ever wikiconference north america. It is amazing to see how our community continues to grow and reach beyond our own borders every day. It is my first time at a wikiconference in the United States, and i cannot say how excited i am to be in san diego. It is my vote we do more events here already. I want to thank our incredible conference organizers for putting together this event. This week
Hoping to have a conversation about the future of our movement. As i said at the beginning, we have been an incredible initiative, an incredible movement, an Incredible Community of people for 15 years now. We have achieved a tremendous amount. And one of the things that i think im hearing as i go around and talk to people is gosh, weve achieved all of this and got this incredible momentum and these resources and were perhaps positioned in way today that we have never been positioned before to take advantage of the opportunities that are out there, the hard challenges in front of us, and the imperative to bring more people into our movement to make it the thing we want it to be. And how do we go about doing this . What gets us moving in the same direction together or at least sets out a direction in which we can all bring our unique resources, capacity, and skills in the contexts and cultures in which we work wom . What is the next mountain we want to climb . Its not that were done yet
Over 5 million english articles are on wikipedia, with added daily. 1000 but theres a dark side to wikipedia you probably dont know about. The promise of accurate, neutral articles and privacy for contributors is often just a mirage, according to two insiders. They say theyve been left battlescarred after troubling personal encounters with the worlds most popular encyclopedia. We begin today with their story. Its billed as the just in the past four hours 500 ip addresses and users have been blocked from editing wikipedia. Greg kohs is among the blocked. Banned, he says, for challenging wikipedia policies. More on that in a moment. In 2012, kohs helped start an opposing website called wikipediocracy to expose what he calls wikipedias misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense. Sharyl so wikipedia does censor users . Kohs absolutely. In a given day, wikipedia administrators typically are blocking about 1,000 different ip addresses. Sharyl when kohs ran afoul of wikipedia, he was dr
Over 5 million english articles are on wikipedia, with added daily. 1000 but theres a dark side to wikipedia you probably dont know about. The promise of accurate, neutral articles and privacy for contributors is often just a mirage, according to two insiders. They say theyve been left battlescarred after troubling personal encounters with the worlds most popular encyclopedia. We begin today with their story. Its billed as the encyclopedia anyone can edit. But for many, its the opposite. 500 ip addresses and users have been blocked from editing wikipedia. Greg kohs is among the blocked. Banned, he says, for challenging wikipedia policies. More on that in a moment. In 2012, kohs helped start an opposing website called wikipediocracy to expose what he calls wikipedias misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense. Sharyl so wikipedia does censor users . Kohs absolutely. In a given day, wikipedia administrators typically are blocking about 1,000 different ip addresses. Sharyl 1,000 a d
Over 5 million english articles are on wikipedia, with added daily. 1000 but theres a dark side to wikipedia you probably dont know about. The promise of accurate, neutral articles and privacy for contributors is often just a mirage, according to two insiders. They say theyve been left battlescarred after troubling personal encounters with the worlds most popular encyclopedia. We begin today with their story. Its billed as the encyclopedia anyone can edit. But for many, its the opposite. Just in the past four hours 500 ip addresses and users have been blocked from editing wikipedia. Greg kohs is among the blocked. Banned, he says, for challenging wikipedia policies. More on that in a moment. In 2012, kohs helped start an opposing website called wikipediocracy to expose what he calls wikipedias misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense. Sharyl so wikipedia does censor users . Kohs absolutely. In a given day, wikipedia administrators typically are blocking about 1,000 different ip