Ideas worth spreading

1,461,761 views | Jimmy Wales • TEDGlobal 2005

O nascimento da Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales relembra como juntou um "grupo de voluntários de arraia-miúda", lhes deu instrumentos de colaboração e criou a Wikipedia, a enciclopédia online auto-organizada, autocorrigida e nunca terminada .

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Jimmy Wales relembra como juntou um "grupo de voluntários de arraia-miúda", lhes deu instrumentos de colaboração e criou a Wikipedia, a enciclopédia online auto-organizada, autocorrigida e nunca terminada .

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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.