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Jimmy Donal Wales detto Jimbo (Huntsville, 7 agosto 1966) è un imprenditore statunitense, noto per essere uno dei fondatori del progetto Wikipedia.

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L'intervista è prevista per domenica 18 ottobre 2009 a Bergamo, nell'ambito della manifestazione BergamoScienza

Domande[modifica]

  • Do you (still)think that meeting up enhances relationships and collaboration?[1]
  • Wikipedia is, probably, the best realisation of what Tim Berners Lee thought when he created the HTTP protocol. Will Wikipedia be able to guide his evolution towards the semantic web and database interaction pointed out by Berners-Lee in his TED talk on 2009 [1][2]
  • In Italy, as in the rest of the world, the price of teaching books and the strict copyright limits imposed by many editors to academics and teachers are an important topic of discussion. How do you think Wikipedia and WMF's project can contribute to "embank" the issue? What do WMF projects (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, etc.) still need to be ready to be used as teaching material?[3]
  • Thanks to MediaWiki a bunch of wikis are born, allowing to a vast variety of people to share thoughts and to create culture togheter. Furthermore many wiki-inspired projects are born, dealing with non-textual informations as OpenStreetMap and OpenAerialMap. How sould WMF relate with these projects now and in the future? Do you think it will be usefull/necessary to gather them under a common aegis or do you think it is better they stay separated with only limited (aimed?) collaborations?[4]
  • What do you think of regional Wikimedia Chapters as a force to push Wikipedia locally? Some of us were a bit upset noticing that you did not ask Fondazione Corriere della Sera and Bergamo Scienza to include someone from WM-IT in the panel you'll attend Monday in Sala Buzzati. It's obvious that you are the best advertisement for Wikipedia, but we think that if you managed to boost the regional chapters (to say it better, to let people know that Wikipedia is cared of in the various nations too) the encyclopedia could really benefit. After all, you cannot be everywhere at the same moment!
  • In 2005 [2] you claimed that the majority of the contribution on Wikipedia was made by a bunch of very active users, while other sources [3] claim that major content contribution are made by "outsiders" (IPs, non-active users) and very active user contribute with "Wiki-work" as formatting, categorizing, etc.. Since 2005 the project has expanded and the number of users has incremented. Do you think something is changed on this topic?
  • On a TED talk in July, 2005 [4] you quoted Charles Van Doren saying: "The ideal encyclopedia should be radical, it should stop being safe" and then stated that Wikipedia is all about this. In the same conference you said that were lots of people amazed because Wikipedia "wasn't all rubbish". Now, it was a few months ago that you pushed for the "Flagged Revision" to be turned on. May you explain us, once again, your position about "Flagged Revisions"? What are they? What changed inside or outside Wikipedia to make them necessary?
  • You usually hold conferences about Wikipedia, can you describe your average audience? May you evaluate Wikipedia's outreach among non-geek people?
  • On Italian Wikipedia on sysop reconfirmation, administrator are asked 3 question: what changes have you noticed on Wikipedia in the last year? What were your best and worst moments in your Wikipedian esperience? What do you expect to give with your work to Wikipedia in the future?
  • What are the main challenges Wikipedia will be facing in the future?
  • A recent study [5] showed that Wikipedia could have some sustainability problems in the future (while scalability seems not to be a problem). What do you think about this?

Commenti[modifica]

Note[modifica]

  1. pensi che incontrarsi dal vivo migliori i rapporti e la cooperazione? (se risponde di sì, chiedetegli se pensa di licenziare la sua segretaria: in 3 mesi non siamo riusciti a farci concedere un po' di spazio..)
  2. Wikipedia è, probabilmente, la migliore realizzazione di quello che Tim Berners-Lee aveva immaginato quando creò il protocollo HTTP. Saprà, secondo te, svilupparsi nella direzione semantica e di interazione tra Database che Tim ha esposto nel suo intervento alla TED conference?
  3. In Italia, come nel resto del mondo, si discute sul costo dei testi scolastici e sulle pratiche riguardo i diritti d'autore che molte case editrici impongono al mondo accademico. Come pensi che Wikipedia ed i progetti della WMF possano contribuire ad "arginare" il problema. Cosa manca perché i contenuti dei progetti Wiki possano essere utilizzati come materiale didattico?
  4. Grazie a MediaWiki sono nati una miriade di wiki, più o meno serie, permettendo ad una quantità immensa di persone di condividere pensieri e creare collaborativamente cultura. A questo già rilevante fenomeno si sono affiancati molti progetti che alla filosofia wiki si ispirano ma che coinvolgono informazioni non testuali, come OpenStreetMap ed OpenAerialMap. Come pensi che WMF debba relazionarsi con questi progetti oggi e nel futuro? Vedi l'utilità/necessità di raccoglierli sotto un unico cappello, o pensi che sia più sano che rimangano separati e si limitino a collaborazioni mirate?