Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia (2010)

ALL 07/01/2010 (en) Documentary 85 Min
  • Release
    07/01/2010
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia
  • Original language
    en
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Imagine a world where everyone had access to the sum of all human knowledge

Overview

Although Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the Internet today, and it is already the 3rd most widely read 'publication' in human history, attracting 100 million unique visitors a month, this great social and academic experiment of our age is riddled with vandals and challenged by skeptics, posing compelling questions about whether Wikipedia's model can truly achieve its goal. The film intersperses founder Jimmy Wales' unusual rise to Internet super-stardom among the global implications of Wikipedia. Are entries factually accurate? Biased? Accountable? Does 'Jimbo' Wales posses the wisdom to ensure that Wikipedians aggregate knowledge correctly?

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  1. Alan Schwartz

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Ed Chi

    Self

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Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia (2010) 85 Min

ALL 07/01/2010 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 07/01/2010
  • Production
  • Original title Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Imagine a world where everyone had access to the sum of all human knowledge

Overview

Although Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the Internet today, and it is already the 3rd most widely read 'publication' in human history, attracting 100 million unique visitors a month, this great social and academic experiment of our age is riddled with vandals and challenged by skeptics, posing compelling questions about whether Wikipedia's model can truly achieve its goal. The film intersperses founder Jimmy Wales' unusual rise to Internet super-stardom among the global implications of Wikipedia. Are entries factually accurate? Biased? Accountable? Does 'Jimbo' Wales posses the wisdom to ensure that Wikipedians aggregate knowledge correctly?

  1. Nic Hill, Scott Glosserman

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Madeleine Gavin

    Editor

  4. Scott Glosserman, Michael Ferris Gibson

    Producer