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Can Wikipedia\u2019s Jimmy Wales fix the\u00a0news?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Traditional media is broken, the tech entrepreneur says. But will his new reader-funded service be any\u00a0better?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stands in the doorway to his office Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Fla.\u200a\u2014\u200aAP Photo\/Steve Nesius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Jimmy Wales has already triggered one global information revolution. Now he is plotting a second.<\/p>\n

As co-founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, Wales helped create one of the wonders of our digital world. Launched as an experimental project in 2001, Wikipedia sprouted into a global community of volunteer contributors who have produced more than 45 million articles in 288 languages. Now the fifth-most-visited website in the world, it has become the first refuge for schoolchildren looking to mug up on photosynthesis and for adults wanting to settle an argument about who won the 1973 World Series. It also stands out as the only one of the top 10 sites that is not a commercial enterprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that, in your pocket, you\u2019ve got this incredible storehouse of knowledge that\u2019s completely free is kind of staggering, I mean, even today,\u201d Wales says, as if he still cannot quite wrap his head around the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Setting up Wikipedia would count as a singular achievement in anyone\u2019s career. But Wales is restless for more. From a cramped and anodyne office near London\u2019s Paddington Station, the 51-year-old tech entrepreneur has spent the past few months planning a similar revolution in the news business. In a video announcing the formation of a new media organisation called WikiTribune, he grandly proclaimed: \u201cThe news is broken. But we\u2019ve figured out how to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alarmed by the debasement of democratic debate and the proliferation of \u201cclickbait crap\u201d that helped Donald Trump win last year\u2019s US presidential elections, Wales wants to bring the power of the Wiki community and the wisdom of crowds to bear on the media business by creating a hybrid model.<\/p>\n

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Can Wikipedia\u2019s Jimmy Wales fix the\u00a0news? Traditional media is broken, the tech entrepreneur says. But will his new reader-funded service be any\u00a0better? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stands in the doorway to his office Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Fla.\u200a\u2014\u200aAP Photo\/Steve Nesius Jimmy Wales has already triggered one global information revolution. Now he is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8262,18055,18054,14273,570,18056],"class_list":["post-29981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-financial-times","tag-jimmy-wales","tag-john-thornhill","tag-medium","tag-news","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29982,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29981\/revisions\/29982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}