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Wikipedia as a model for societal problem-solving

Published on Jul 10, 20123917 Views License

Wikipedia is one of the simple pleasures of the modern Internet - a free, universal reference in over 200 languages. Unlike past efforts to compile and share human knowledge, Wikipedia has been planne

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The cultivated person's first duty is to always be prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.00:00
Wikipedia and collective problem-solving00:45
Evolution of the large scale collaboration: a case study01:17
Housekeeping03:52
Encyclopédistes: saving the world?04:10
TwenCen: World Brain05:55
2001: NuWikipedia07:56
Parallel work, 2000-201209:02
The Secret Life of Wikipedia09:54
Differences from past efforts10:09
Epic backlogs11:19
Who Writes Wikipedia?11:55
Legal structures12:21
Current Challenges and Problems12:46
Bootstrapping solutions to problems13:00
Systemic bias16:29
New types of knowledge19:36
There is a deadline.21:59
Cologne city archive, 200923:08
Turing-complete templating system23:58
Dependent on the open web24:28
Solving new collective problems26:02
Wiki Future26:39
Special collections37:50
Revenge of the Semantic Web38:20
Parallel efforts today40:09
Everyone has something to teach43:02
Wikipedia Education Program45:20
Seeking new collective problems46:19
Coda: Tomorrow's Hackers47:28
One Laptop per Child48:11
Pervasive social problem-solving48:43
Reading Wik ipedia offline.50:17
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.51:05