Wikipedia

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 28, 2017 by Jason Mars · said 99 times in 51 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jul 28, 2017
Disclosure
Mars: Sirius QA system uses the entire Wikipedia corpus for answers
“We have a QA system, a question and answer system that has at its disposal the entire corpus of Wikipedia to answer your question, and it hits that system, and the answer is plucked from the knowledge base of Wikipedia and sent to the user.”
Jason Mars Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 5:31 Jason Mars
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Mokyr: Wikipedia contributes zero to official GDP because access is free
“What's the contribution of Wikipedia to GDP? Well, it's nothing, because here every time you click on it, you're not charged.”
Joel Mokyr Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:44 a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Protocol Labs bypassed Turkish censorship by hosting Wikipedia on IPFS
“So recently Turkey decided to block Wikipedia and it was very easy for them because all they had to do was intercept, you know, the connection between all Turkish users and the Wikipedia servers outside of Turkey. And so that was like very trivial blocking, bl…”
Juan Benet Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:06 a16z Podcast | Getting Applications Into People's Hands
Dec 19, 2019 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Dixon: Wikipedia Sustains 100k Attacks and Fixes Per Day
“The interesting about Wikipedia is it's something like there's like a 100,000 per day, a 100,000 sort of attacks on Wikipedia, people spamming it, changing it, but per day, there's also more than a 100,000 people fixing it, right?”
Chris Dixon Dec 19, 2019 ▶ 3:23 What's Next for the Internet?
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Wikipedia is garbage for contemporary political topics
“Wikipedia is actually just as bad as the media because Wikipedia, it's garbage in, garbage out. What happens is you can only cite articles from legacy media. You can't cite social media directly. So Wikipedia is a rehash. So anything that's contemporary, anyth…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 58:18 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
Sep 10, 2025
Assertion Supported
Dixon: Major online communities are driven by only 20,000 core people
“If you look at, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, like a lot of these kind of interesting kind of movements, like community sites, like they're often like 20,000 people, like they aren't that many, they aren't the millions that you might think.”
Chris Dixon Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 16:17 Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
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