A made in germany or indepth business show im been physical and. Wiki pedia is one of the worlds most valuable internet platforms and yet it doesnt except advertising the Nonprofit Foundation relies on volunteer at it is and us to build a free constantly growing and morphing encyclopedia for the world it contains millions of articles and is in three hundred languages just think about the extremely lucrative global potential for advertising there but think again money is not permitted to get in the way of this project. These are wicked authors admiring ancient treasures on an outing to the Egyptian Museum and leipsic. Their aim is to learn more about how to document such artifacts. One can hope for that you can take photos and make them available to others and by posting your photos to wikipedia they gain a new significance. These writers are all volunteers they started out just using the online encyclopedia many first took photos for a work of p. T. O. Before they started to write or update entries themselves theyre going to revise the entry for the museum so they took new photos of these two for example and his wife he was an egyptian Civil Servant more than four and a half thousand years ago. The museums facade is also worth a photo or two there are about two million entries in the German Version of wikipedia and the number is growing all the time. You know over to fifty and it depends on the light but i try to be in the right place at the right time when i have time off to work i make my photos look more professional i edit them on my computer touch them up and publish them on wikimedia commons. Commons. These are all wiki authors they came to leipzig for wiki con twenty seventeen a conference for contributors to the world of wiki there are more than six thousand in germany alone. If you take all the different language additions together with a pedia already comprises forty six million articles its incorporating more and more multimedia content including videos photos maps and graphics that also partners with archives in many countries which have had quite a head start some time centuries when it comes to collecting. P. T. O. Wants to collect all the knowledge in the world in the encyclopedia and its other projects. But many institutions any museums have already gathered loads and loads. So it makes perfect sense to team up with them. 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 its 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 doesnt 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 its 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 theres 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 organizations model members of the public can contribute money or content. There are wicked media affiliates in forty countries around the world together with a pedia appears to embody the much hyped new economic form known as the collaborative or sharing economy. Now the cofounder of wikipedia american jimmy wales is one of the few world famous internet entrepreneurs whos not a billionaire he would be if hed allowed advertising on his platform but his mission is all about unfettered access to information and knowledge a campaign hes still fighting as our reporter. Found out when the two met up in london. Jimmy wales one of the founders of wikipedia is browsing in a beautiful old bookstore in london. Books have been a lifelong source of inspiration for him. So this seemed like a great place to meet. Well i was a very early reader learned to require early and the 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 i love 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 thats where he made his first million. Today wells is a man of independent means and lives with his family in london wiki pedia is now the worlds fifth most popular web site does he regret founding it as a nonprofit no no not at all im really proud of it as it is and you know i think. You know its a its a Remarkable Community project thats been built by millions of people and i think its amazing just as it is. This shop may be full of exciting books but what you wont find up to date multivolume encyclopedias the venerable britannica for example founded in the seven hundred sixty s. Stopped printing new additions in two thousand and ten. This marks a huge change and the end of an era how does wales feel about this you know britannica was already in deep trouble due to microsoft and carter and they didnt adapt well to the digital age but then they moved to collaborative peer production and getting many more people involved they clearly never really managed to do anything about that so you know in some ways of course its sad to see old institutions go. Maybe theres 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 dont think that will he pedia replace his books textbooks or indepth things its a supplement to it and its a supplement in the same way that i wouldnt think that. Britannica brockhouse could replace. Shakespeare its 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 its really this is my lifes work and i have a goal for wiki pedia to see you have at least one hundred thousand entries in every language that has at least one million speakers this is like three hundred forty something languages were in about two hundred eighty right now in even the trade dont all have one hundred thousand entries yet so theres still a lot of work left to do wiki pedia is designed to continually renew itself and grow jimmy wales mission is to support that process. Wikipedias relentless march forward to become the planet spanning one stop Information Center for millions of people all over the world has claimed a few victims along the way the printed encyclopedia business for example has pretty much imploded in the last couple decades with me in the studio is a man who experienced that firsthand Alexander Bob used to head up block house one of germanys best known encyclopedia publishes folk into the show first of all alexander could you explain to us exactly what went wrong because i believe your business already had its own online model up and ready but the company as a whole got sold right from from the beginning we watched we keep p. D. N. Chairman he and we saw that very Dynamic Development and so we decided to put up something ourselves but a peer to peer and cyclopedia which means we would involve institutes and named authors to build up an online for free p. D. S. Well but that didnt happen you know if it if i really didnt happen could it have competed against wikipedia we dont know we will never know probably but we had a concept and we had a Business Model and the project was ready to be switched on but exactly at that time possible sold from. Two to bertelsmann so when you see we keep a. T. O. When you hear the word wiki page what does that mean for you im very pro we can just say because its free information for so many people its a revolution that and the increasing knowledge of our time has to be put up somewhere but i think this room for and ill turn it if. And ill turn to a peer to peer alternative with institutions providing the information. Would not go against what we keep it. We keep pedia is for the people and by the people and as soon as you get an institution involved i mean not all institutions are going to be as reliable as say. Some of the institutions and show youre thinking about. Im not sure if we could peter will be able to keep up the speed necessary. Without increasing the income. Well the foundation but still they have to get money from from the foundation they think it could get bigger and bigger and bigger and so big that its collapses its collapse for that model they are following and maybe that its time then for a different model where the uses pay for information but they know from which source theyre buying the information. Would that involve advertising that at some stage yeah maybe advertising whats wrong with that for ties and if you know that somebody has paid for advertising being close to an article that doesnt necessarily mean that the article is influenced by the people i mean we have so many magazine convinced jimmy wales of that yeah i mean. That we could peter we dont know who wrote the article with what intent. If you buy a spiegel magazine you know that there is advertising but you would never say that theres an influence of. Advertisement into the content and then theres the content itself what subjects are actually being covered if you take a look at wikipedia sixteen percent of the one point three million biographies on english wikipedia are about women what about all the rest of the influential women in the world when it comes to africa and the two and a half percent of the geotagged content is about the entire content of africa which is the second biggest content continent in the world yeah its much more difficult to get people to make articles u. P. D. One. That was easier when we had this because editors and we could tell them well we need more on africa we read no more on women we need more on that topic and that was easy to to make but on the other hand. Peter today has much more information than brokers could provide in books on bookshelves and its for free so its the best available at the moment so i know one way youd like to see wiki pedia move but where do you think it will end up in the next years its been around for sixteen years or so where will it end up do you think i think they need to go in a direction which profession professionalize more. And have more editors taking care of certain topics and lets say pay for content to be on at least the first article its always easier then to correct. Things to an article that already exists i think is that the way they have to go drugs and of of thank you very much for coming in today thank you. To spains biggest political crisis in decades a huge question mark hanging over catalonia the leader of the nations richest region wants to break away from the rest of the country but businesses and beating him to it many of shifting their headquarters from barcelona to madrid to ensure they can keep operating within the european union. What about the small and medium sized businesses that kind of food such a move we sent markets burnished to gauge the mood. Frederick and Carlos Hoffman run a Family Business in barcelona it was founded by the german father in one nine hundred seventy two the sons were born in catalonia and follow developments that closely. Theres a lot of tension in the air. Where ever you go everybody is talking about just one thing independence. Those in favor and those who are against it. Society is deeply divided. Three years ago their late father and other german Business People in barcelona issued an appeal for the catalan leadership to abandon its quest for independence and to negotiate with the Spanish Government to no avail of course. The huffmans company call or manufactures lighting with customers all over the world it sells a lot to the gulf states. We export three quarters of our output so its very important for our company that catalonia remains in the euro zone. In the. This Company Subject manufactures Speciality Chemicals its boss us at money i mean gal is in favor of independence for catalonia during the financial crisis that erupted in two thousand and eight the company boosted its exports to reduce its dependence on the domestic market mean gal says independence need not harm the economy. But. We want the best possible administration and the most democratic form of government weve evaluated the risks we believe the issue as a political one and independence shouldnt affect our business unless that is the Spanish Government decides to adopt methods that are not particularly democratic. Spain has issued a decree making it easier for companies to move their headquarters from one region to another catalonia as two biggest banks have said theyre moving their legal headquarters elsewhere more than five hundred firms have already made a similar move the catalonian government doesnt think the decree will have a major impact. Their manufacturing plants will remain in catalonia and theyll stay here because catalonia is where they will find the best conditions for their businesses. Economist monserrat called a foreigner sees it differently for years shes been warning of the risks of secession she says Companies Moving their legal headquarters is much more than just a symbolic gesture. That Food Companies will not build new factories install new machines develop new businesses all make fresh investments all the things that guarantee economic development. Because the firms will no longer have Legal Security here or access to European Networks or sources of capital. John romero of catalonia trade and investment concedes that insecurity can dampen the propensity to invest. Some companies will stick to their investment plans. Others will choose to wait and see for a while. It doesnt mean that they wont invest. In. Frederick hoffman bought another production hole two years ago he needed to boost capacity after receiving a big order today he wouldnt go ahead with a purchase. Were not expand at the moment we would wait for the situation to become more stable its a problem. The Independence Movement is rolling markets. Other small and Medium Sized Companies like ours probably put their plans on hold for the time being. The standoff between the Pro IndependenceCatalan Government and the Spanish Government is set to continue and theres no easy resolution in sight. So is the drifting towards its next economic crisis because its not just the catalans it seems Everyone Wants their own country these days often the regions that are most vocal about demanding autonomy of the economic powerhouses of that countries the question of secession with that. The catalog yes. The northern italians. Including the venetians. And the flemish in northern belgium. There are several regions across europe with movements that are pushing for independence something that could a road that european union. This could spread it could grow and it could become infectious and the unity of the e. U. With its twenty eight Member States the edges at least could begin to crumble like a dry cake so to speak and simply fall to bits. Of news. From an economic standpoint secession could spell disaster for a european member state the flanders region for example contributes some fifty eight percent to belgiums gross domestic product. And the italian regions of the nato and lumber they contribute thirty one percent to italys g. D. P. E. U. Regions with Independence Movements represent just over eight percent of the unions economic strength but when it comes to going it alone money isnt the primary issue. It has to do with people having problems with the phenomenon of globalization which is indeed difficult to grasp digitalisation and other major developments are making people feel and secure so theyre seeking a sense of wellbeing in the immediate the local region as a way of anchoring themselves. Theyre coming together around whats familiar to find a new political identity. Thats. The interesting thing about these nationalists like the catalans is that they are pro european nationalists unlike those like madame le pen in france they dont want out of the e. U. They want to stay in but as a separate state. I think itll take five years rather than five weeks or five months. Because if catalonia were to suddenly become a new e. U. Member state then all those that applied for membership a long time ago would justifiably complain. So northern italy and other regions that made a choice for independence would have to wait their turn experts say the most important thing is how decisions are carried out. The tough economies need stability and predictability if the fight for an independent catalonia is chaotic and disorganized and results in conflict in the economy will suffer but if a region like catalonia follows an orderly procedure it could certainly survive as an independent country. 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