Ideas worth spreading

1,470,864 views | Jimmy Wales • TEDGlobal 2005

El nacimiento de Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales recuerda cómo reunió a un grupo diverso de voluntarios, les dio herramientas para colaborar y crearon Wikipedia, la enciclopedia en línea que se autoorganiza y autocorrige y que nunca termina de completarse.

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Jimmy Wales recuerda cómo reunió a un grupo diverso de voluntarios, les dio herramientas para colaborar y crearon Wikipedia, la enciclopedia en línea que se autoorganiza y autocorrige y que nunca termina de completarse.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Participate in Wikipedia. Contribute to the world's largest open-source encyclopedia.

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Founder of Wikipedia

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With a vision for a free online encyclopedia, Wales assembled legions of volunteer contributors, gave them tools for collaborating, and created the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, multilingual encyclopedia of the future.