Jimmy Wales

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

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Conversations · Jimmy Wales says it is possible to have a collaborative, trusting world online · 27 May 2026 podcast

It comes from a Hawaiian word, wiki wiki, which means quick.

So if you go to Maui at the airport, the bus is called the wiki wiki bus, because it's allegedly quick.

I wouldn't agree, but...

And, you know, we decided, okay, let's try this wiki thing.

But because the community we had, we were afraid they were going to hate it and be very, very skeptical because they were all like proper academics and so forth.

We didn't want to put it on Newpedia.

So we just said, okay, it's going to be this separate website, which would be just like a scratch pad for us to get started collaborating.

It turned out in two weeks, we had more work done than in almost two years.

And people liked it.

And they started contributing.

It unleashed the energy of that

group of people who had spent two years discussing writing an encyclopedia and then we finally could get started.

Yeah, and there was a lot of concern about, would that be possible?

I mean, there were a few details that made a difference.

So one thing that, with a wiki, very quickly, so I just downloaded an open source wiki software package, use mod wiki, and it was very, very basic.

It was so basic that it didn't even have real user accounts.

So you could log in as Richard Feidler,

and then tomorrow I could show up and I could set my username.

I can also be Richard Feidler because there were no passwords.

So that was obviously never going to work.

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