Jimmy Wales

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6,110 appearances 12 recordings 11 series first heard Jun 2023 last heard 21 Jun

Jimmy Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So we decided that we had to be even more academic than...

than a traditional encyclopedia.

So there was a seven-stage review process to get anything published.

And, you know, people would have to fax in their CVs to prove they were qualified to write.

Fax in the CVs.

Fax in the CVs, yeah.

I mean, what's funny is I was just giving a talk at... It was in New York at Columbia University, and I realised the audience...

because Wikipedia is 25 years old now.

I'm like, oh, most of you aren't even 25 yet.

Maybe I better explain what a fax machine is.

It's sort of like sending paper through a phone line.

I mean, don't worry about it, but it was before the internet.

And so people had to fax in their CVs.

And, you know, it was very, very slow going.

I was getting frustrated.

And so I decided to write an article to just go through the process myself.

And I realized it was incredibly intimidating.

I was going to have to write

my first draft, and then they were going to send it to the most prestigious professors that they could find to review the draft and give me feedback.

And it was basically like being back in grad school.

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