. >> this week on talk to al jazeera - the founder of wikipedia, jimmy wales. >> everything you see on the website, including the choice of what goes on the front page, the article of the day, picture of the day, all of that is controlled fully by the community. >> in 2001, the internet entrepreneur created the open content encyclopedia and decided it should be free. the reference site is now the world's largest. >> we have a policy, "neutral point of view," that wikipedia itself shouldn't take a stand on any controversial issue. >> anyone can edit the user-generated pages, but wikipedia's model has been accused of leading to a gender bias. >> but the truth is-- you know, your-- sort of the typical kind of-- wikipedia editor is a 26-year-old-- tech, male, computer geek-- single--. >> what makes for a noteworthy wikipedia subject and what isn't relevant enough, is open for debate. also of concern - vandalism. >> once-- my entry said-- "in his spare time, he enjoys-- playing chess with friends". it's not actually true (laughter) at all! i would like to be that guy who plays chess. >> he

coming up: jimmy wales on the linguistics of the the site. >> this is talk to al jazeera. i'm antonio mora. my guest this week, jimmy wales - an entrepreneur and founder of wikipedia. >> i know, early on, you-- were kept up at night worrying-- in your words, that "extreme rubbish" would find its way (laughter) on-- onto wikipedia. how concerned are you now about accuracy? because-- i mean, i don't-- i don't know the numbers-- i'm sure it's thousands of edits--. >> oh, yes. >> maybe more a day--. >> huge, huge. yeah, many, many thousands-- yeah--. >> so how do you possibly--. >> yeah. well--. >> --control that? >> so part of it is that communities inherently scale. so the more people you have editing, the more people, by definition, you have editing, the more people you have looking at it, the more people you have discussing things. i worry about, you know, we-- we seek to be comprehensive-- and that's a good thing, to be comprehensive. but we do have limits on what we can write about--. >> wikipedia's in all these different languages. >> yeah, yeah. >> so talk about contro

. >> this week on talk to al jazeera - the founder of wikipedia, jimmy wales. >> everything you see onhe website, including the choice of what goes on the front page, the article of the day, picture of the day, all of that is controlled fully by the community. >> in 2001, the internet entrepreneur created the open content encyclopedia and decided it should be free. the reference site is now the world's largest. >> we have a policy, "neutral point of view," that wikipedia itself shouldn't take a stand on any controversial issue.

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