Nupedia
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2018 by Jimmy Wales · said 21 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Feb 26, 2018 negative
Feb 26, 2018 positive
Crowdsourced review catches critical errors that structured gatekeeping often misses
“That concept does actually apply in lots of areas of life, that if you get a lot of people looking at something, people can say, hey, there's actually a problem here that maybe nobody else noticed, and then sometimes after it's been pointed out, you say, oh ye…”
Jan 27, 2020
Wales: Wikipedia got a separate domain to avoid offending academics
“And I made the decision to put it up at the domain name wikipedia.com rather than keep it on Newpedia, because we weren't really sure, like, we had a lot of academics and a lot of very serious people on the mailing list, and this seemed a bit of a crazy idea, …”