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I, okay, so I like learning about the Big Bang.
Even though I'm not a scientist who understands

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it on a deep level, I'm just fascinated by the
people that devote their entire careers to

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studying picoseconds that happened 13 point 8
billion years ago, like the scale we're talking

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is really crazy. People devote a lot of time to
studying revisions of seconds that have too many

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zeros to even write out. And the reason is,
because when you look at the very first moments

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that the universe existed, the moments workspace
time was being created. It tells you a little

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bit about the way the universe is today. So I
thought it could be kind of interesting maybe,

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to look at the big bang of Wikipedia, the
moments that Wikipedia was created, because

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maybe it'll tell you something about how
Wikipedia and Wikimedia is today. So first,

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let's set the scene in January of 2001. I'm
setting the scene Top songs were independent

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woman Destiny's Child, and it wasn't me by
Shaggy, great songs. And just two days before

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Wikipedia was born, George Bush jumped on a
pretzel and fainted. Um, in 2001. I was not

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editing Wikipedia, I was digesting my new skill
of walking and look, I did it even on ice. I was

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so good at it. Also, my mom pictured I texted
her yesterday, I was like, Mom, what was I doing

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in January 2001. Immediately, she replied with a
big list of all the words that I learned how to

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say that month. So thank you to my mom, for that
original research. Um, so I was not editing

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Wikipedia. But anyway, in 2001, people were
watching Castaway, which was newly released.

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People were reeling from the recount in Florida
that had just happened. And George Bush would

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take office, I think January 20. More
importantly, in January 2001, Britney Spears and

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Justin Timberlake who were together at the time,
were the now infamous all denim outfit. And the

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New York Times had a technology section and some
of the articles in it that I enjoyed. We're

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breaking news. Starbucks has Wi Fi now. This is
kind of interesting. It's like, what if we had a

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computer in your hands with a screen that you
could hold? Mmm, interesting idea. I wonder if

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it will go anywhere. Um, another New York Times
technology section article was, oh, no cordless

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phones. Sometimes we lose the handsets. I know,
let's get cordless phones with many handsets as

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the solution to that problem. Um, okay. So in
2001, we're still setting the scene, there was a

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guy named Jimmy Wales. And this is how his
personal website looks. According to the

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Internet Archive, the closest I could get was
July. He wasn't famous, which, you know, because

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he has to clarify that he's not But Jimmy Wales
was a fantasy professional wrestler, or the

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professional billiards player, or the Assistant
Chief of the volunteer fire department in a

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small town in Alabama. He's the CEO of a website
called bombas, which I'll talk about in a

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second. But first, I know what you might be
thinking, Oh, no guns, lots of guns. That seems

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threatening. Well, don't worry. It's not. It was
photos of him blowing up melons in the desert.

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There you go. That was the guns page of his
website. Okay, so Jimmy Wales, who, if you're in

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this room, you probably know him as the founder
or co founder depending on who you ask a

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Wikipedia. But before Wikipedia existed, Jimmy
Wales was the founder of a website called

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Obama's promise was like, he describes it as a
guy oriented search engine. It was how you

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navigated the web before Google. This is the
family friendly events. I'm not gonna show you

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every page of bombas there were some forums like
world's hottest female. There was a babe report.

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Um, and something this is actually really
interesting. So they discussed the lives of

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models and adult film stars in this form. And I
think it's really interesting that it has a very

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tenuous, maybe even an antagonistic relationship
with truth. Unlike Wikipedia, the editorial

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standards are just like a joke. That was bombed
miss, um, on this had like 1000 slogans. And so

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when you click the page, it would be a different
slogan every time and as you can see from just a

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few of the slogans, it was not a serious
endeavor. It was not it was not going to be the

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same as the encyclopedia project which would
come Okay, so Jimmy Wales has this website

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called Bahamas for navigating the web. Then he
hires his friend from a philosophy forum named

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Larry. And he's like, let's make an encyclopedia
online. And so in 2000, they made an

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encyclopedia online, but it was not Wikipedia.
It was new pedia. Again, some of you totally

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know this, but I don't know. I'm just telling it
for you in case you were curious. Me PDO was a

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website. That was the idea was to have
encyclopedia articles about everything under the

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sun for free. But the crucial difference is that
I had a seven step review process and unlimited

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its contributors to people with PhDs or who were
otherwise experts. And so the problem was that I

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had barely any articles. In its first pretty
much year. Like as of January, these were all of

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the articles and also no offense to pedia but
like the music decidedly unsexy topics. Um, this

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is I was so curious, like a lot of this stuff. I
didn't even know what the was. And this is a

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very obscure person from history. Yeah, it just
wasn't getting a lot of traction. Luckily,

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Wikipedia came up as an idea, thanks to a
conversation. So the first mention of it is on

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January 10. We're literally saying yourself to
the new pedia listserv. Let's make a wiki. It

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would literally take 10 minutes. We've already
found this out. Note the time, okay, five hours

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later. They say or wait, is it five hours,
something like that. He says look, I made the

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wiki. And at this point, it's not Wikipedia
because it's on the MU pedia website. And the

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word Wikipedia has not been written yet. At
least, we don't have records of it being written

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yet. Also, it says speak up if we're gonna make
jackasses of ourselves. Nobody spoke up luckily.

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Um, alright, January 11 is the first time that
we have on record of the word Wikipedia being

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written. Um, he said we wouldn't call the new
pedia wiki, bla bla bla, Wikipedia. Wiki is a

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word this is actually interesting. I just
learned this wiki is a word that has been around

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for a while because of Ward Cunningham, who had
had a wiki in the 90s on and it's named after

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the wiki wiki shuttle in Hawaii. It means quick,
he was gonna name it his software a quick

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something. But he was like, let's do a wiki
that's more fun. When the American Heritage

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Dictionary asked him how to pronounce wiki, he
was like, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be

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wiki. So we've been pronouncing it wrong this
whole time. Anyway, though, that's just a little

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aside. So Wikipedia basically exists. And then
the first edits that we have on record for

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wikipedia.com. As it was, according to one
archive, the first edits are this. This is the

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new Wikipedia, Monday, January 15. This is
actually well. But this might not actually be

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the first edit because Jimmy Wales insists that
the actual first edit wasn't Hello World, which

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he then deleted and he sold it as an NFT. a
recreation of it as an NFT. Anyway, though, the

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records that Wikipedia has right now from Tim
Starling show that it was this is the new

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Wikipedia. That was the editor of the homepage.
Then people edit the article about itself

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Wikipedia. People said, or the person that wrote
this said Wikipedia is a wide open encyclopedia

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project who knows where it will go. Not very
encyclopedic pros, but we'll give them a pass

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the next article philosophy and logic. Let's
work on articles on at least these famous

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philosophers, philosophers. We did and at least
did a lot of work there. Then United States

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perplexingly This is the entire article as it
first existed. There are only 14 states. It

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looks like it's an alphabetical order, but it's
missing Georgia and Hawaii. I don't know. Thank

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God, we edited it more times. Since then, we've
had 49,301 revisions, making it the second most

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edited article on English Wikipedia behind list
of WWE personnel. Um, the very first editor of

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Wikipedia was Obama's username was office dot
von mises.com, which we now understand to get a

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clear violation of the username policy. But that
didn't exist at the time. All right, that was

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the first day second day of Wikipedias life was
January 16 2001. The homepage was edited to say

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a little bit about what the project is, and then
quoted, some people think that this may be a

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hopeless endeavor that the result will
necessarily suck. We aren't so sure. So let's

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get to work. Again. Thank God they did

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Popular music was added. This was the entire
article. This was all popular music, according

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to the very first version of the Wikipedia
article, missing quite a few, quite a few

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moments in popular music, but that's again,
that's okay because more people edited the

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article. The first named user joins, his name is
Scott Moonman. Today he lives in North Carolina

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and who works at IBM seems to be really nice
guy. He had some crucial advice. He said, maybe

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having the logo as the American flag is
ethnocentric. What if you did a globe, and then

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we did a globe? Then were saying or emailed new
pedia, to say what can you use up go out a

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little article people did. Then, on a Friday
night at 11:49pm. Larry Sanger was like, Hey,

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I've been thinking about weekends just as a
concept. And I'm writing about weekends. And you

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should also write about weekends. I think this
is kind of interesting, because it begins a long

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tradition of reading and also editing articles
about the day that it is currently. To this day,

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the article about weekend which is actually work
week and weekend. It gets 1.4 times the normal

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pageviews on Fridays. And this website is wiki
pulse, and is really fun. On the 23rd overall

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article page was called Why on earth would I
want to contribute to a wiki? Still something

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that a lot of people think in Wikipedia is first
two weeks. Clearly people didn't take it that

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seriously. Like they just this like air of like
this doesn't really matter. I'm in a debate

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Larry Sanger just responded to someone will the
don't like it, find another wiki. Then Larry

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Sanger emailed the new PDF people, the ones who
were doing the very serious seven step review

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stuff. And he was like Wikipedia owl, we haven't
we have a new listserv for just Wikipedia stuff

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called Wikipedia L. So hopefully, it's the last
time you guys ever had to hear about Wikipedia.

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And it was not, they ended up hearing about
Wikipedia more. Um, the first time the Internet

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Archive saves the wikipedia.com homepage was in
March of 2001. And here's how it looks. In some

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ways, it looks remarkably similar to how it does
now. As you can see, in March, there were

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translations Dutch, Catalan and also sort of
Japanese but it was all like with Roman texts,

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like you know, like, ABC type stuff. So people
don't always count that one as a true as a true

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other language version. And the very first
Wikipedia list serve had five members. In its

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first six months, Wikipedia had about 10,000
articles, and a whopping 346 were about the book

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Atlas Shrugged. Here are some of the articles
about Atlas Shrugged. Here are some more of

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them. On it is an example of how in depth we
were getting. There was an article about the

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like Madrid in Atlas Shrugged, which was just
once mentioned in the book. But clearly, we have

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some fan craft going on. Also, like NPU V. stuff
wasn't really enforced. Jimbo Wales wrote an

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article about the brother of the movie overall,
there were out there bow which included the

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line. If you don't like it, there must be
something wrong with you. For the first two ish

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weeks, there were no talk pages at all. If you
had things to talk about. You just put it in the

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article. For example, there was an article New
York Giants actually based in New Jersey now.

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New Jersey, yes. Then explain this to them
explain to this dumb Alaskan weither they are

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called the New York Giants instead of the jersey
giants. That just in the article. The Alter Ego

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article started out with the line altruism,
altruism doesn't really excuse which made some

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people mad at me. So that was one of the first
talk pages. Also there was a bush talk, George

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Bush talk page that was really early as well. In
February 12 2001 on the talk page for Metallica,

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Jimbo Wales wrote, I Jimbo Wales confessed to
listening to almost no other music than

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Metallica. That was the comment. They were
really talking in the truest meaning of talk,

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just chatting the chat page. There were a lot of
problems with an early articles because there

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were literally no citations to be found. For
example, someone wrote that Los Angeles was the

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largest city in the world. Not true. It's
interesting to look back though, because the

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first article for Hillary Clinton says Is that
she was the brand new and New York Senator, but

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she was at the time. And now she is so much more
than that. First version of the article history

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Germany is literally just National Socialism
Berlin, that was all the texts. The very first

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instance that we have on record of people
linking a page and inserting vandalism was on

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the article for the state of Maryland, where
someone gave a migraine recipe or excuse me,

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migraine like home remedy, and then asked for
money. That was on January 24 2001. I've never

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tried this migraine remedy, so maybe it works.
Actually, maybe I should try it. Um, back then

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we didn't like people just didn't really try
that hard to learn stuff. They were just making

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stubs like crazy. For, for example, the
sculpture article literally just says, Yeah, we

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actually don't have we have a really hard time
distinguishing this from architecture and other

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arts. Please someone come enlighten us. The
first version of the article about wikipedians

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themselves is kind of like mobile, the curiously
brave people who in the face of the dire threat

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of disruption, nonetheless, post brilliant prose
and sometimes patent nonsense. Talked about this

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one, but it got an answer. Why on earth would I
contribute to a wiki? Because it's fun,

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educational and social all in one. Besides, you
can correct other people on the spot without

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asking their permission. So one of the reasons
why many people contribute to wikis. Okay, the

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first someone's rules came on February 4, and
the first four or two the first three rules were

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explained jargon, avoid bias and delete patent
nonsense. Then two days later, Larry came back

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with a new rule that he added to the list and
put this one at the top. Ignore all rules, it

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rules making more nervous and depressed. And
this typo was in the original version, if rules

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make your nervous system depressed, and not
desirous of participating in a wiki, then ignore

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them entirely and go about your business. This
is still on Wikipedia. Um, when the German

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Wikipedia was made, people had to decide is this
a feminine or masculine word in German, and they

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decided that it was a feminine noun and so on
Wikipedia, she is a woman. Throughout 2001, the

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project got a lot bigger. And I looked through
some of the old user pages to try to figure out

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who these people were that first found the
project and it's an unemployed college student,

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a Turkish neurologist who studied erectile
dysfunction. Religion professor and researcher,

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a Portuguese man who was interested in global
warming music school dropout, a Dutch

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mathematician between jobs. A pure methods
mathematics student in Calgary, someone named

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astronomer who created the astronomy article, a
computer scientists and weaving enthusiast named

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Janet. Many people, we had a dream team, and
then the first major press to write about

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Wikipedia. Well, there was one small article
about Jimmy Wales from a newspaper in Wales,

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fittingly, but um, the first major article was
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Jimmy maintains that they called him to
interview him for this article on September 11.

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And he has this quote, which I'm paraphrasing,
that's like, Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that

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they, that I was a priority on the day where the
New York Times was very busy. But they did

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interview him on September 11. And then they
made this article and I included the end of the

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article, because I think it's kind of
interesting. They say that, even if we continue,

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it doesn't become a popular resource. It may
survive, because of what it offers to those

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working on it. The article was really focused on
what it's like to edit Wikipedia, not really

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what it's like to consume Wikipedia. And today
in the media, most perspectives are about what

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it's like to consume Wikipedia. Um, alright,
well, that's my like, very brief history lesson,

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which more people said a lot of people in this
room know more about 2001 Wikipedia than I do.

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So that's just my quick little version of it.
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still figuring it out in a lot of the ways that
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new Wikipedia, who knows where it will go. I
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Um, we made the first dy K in 2004. And it was
literally this. Did you know that a pencil

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sharpener is a device for sharpening pencils
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all right, you probably did. Um, that was on the
main page, I believe. We're still finding

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hoaxes. For example, there's vandalism all the
time, some of it is very easy to catch. You can

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even catch this vandalism immediately, somewhat
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this a lot because it's my favorite hoax. But
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about an Australian Aboriginal God associated
with Victory and intelligence, which was on

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Wikipedia for an entire decade, until a few
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And then it's actually a hoax, probably created
by an Australian teenager named Jared Owens. One

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of the people that caught this hoax I believe
the article was New York bread. I don't think

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he's actually here but next time you see him
tell him thanks. Um, we're still discussing how

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serious a project we should be. I'm guy standing
The Economist no longer has the caption guy

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standing sitting. Kevin lasagna, the Italian
footballer no longer is described as having many

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layers to his game. We tried to be a serious
projects. We no longer have a category songs

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about the boys being back in town, because there
was only one song in the category. We no longer

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describe Will Smith as being in West
Philadelphia born and raised even though he was

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we do against all odds to have a joke in the
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this dolphin, we say citation needed. That's
like the one joke that remains. We still have a

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motley crew of contributors. One favorite that I
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who really only does one thing, he makes
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significant knots, and then takes remarkably
blurry photos of them, and upload them to the

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articles about their lives in knots. It takes it
takes a village really. Um, we're still getting

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better and better and better. I'm looking at how
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we're probably getting really close to figuring
out. Um, we used to have, okay, so there's an

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article Why there's anything at all and it used
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Maybe that means something. I pointed this out
like a couple of weeks ago, and people really

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enjoyed it. But since the Ship of Theseus
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edited almost 2000 times and 0% of the original
phrases remain. It is totally new. Like the rest

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of Wikipedia. It is changing all the time. Um,
okay. I think that Ryan is here. One at

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Virginia's. Yes, emojis is here. Okay. Um, I was
told to Okay, I have some trivia for epic

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genius. Everyone clap for ion?

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Okay, you can. I think the best way to do this
is for you to take a seat. A little intro for

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you is that you are like one of the most
prolific contributors on English Wikipedia, and

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definitely the most prolific New York City
Transit contributor of all time. Um, you've

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written articles about, like, all the transit
topics in New York City. Also, how long is your

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daily editing streak these days? I think there's
a mic that you might be sitting on.

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Oh, my dear, my daily editing streak. So I've
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I don't know how many days it was.

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Every single day not missing a day.

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You beat a lot of the bots. Good? Yeah, that's
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Um, okay. I have a few trivia questions for you
just about general Wikipedia stuff. The first

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one don't look at the screen. Okay. I said to
close your eyes, but just don't look at the

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screen. You don't close your eyes. All right.
Okay. Um, which subway stations in New York

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City. Get the most pageviews I have a list of
the top five and I want to see if you can name

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the top five subway stations in New York. They
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I guess 96 treat on one because there was a
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Now I'm looking at the past full year. Maybe
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I guess Times Square Fulton Street. Yes. What
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not Grand Central.

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It is Union Square. Yes. Herald Square. No.
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don't think so. Coney Island

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Oh, sorry then Manhattan. New York City subway
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you got you got Fulton Street Times Square and
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Cortland Street. I'm very onDestroy names out
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116th Street.

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I ready for the answers. Yeah. Okay. It was
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Canal Street.

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I'm still impressed.

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Okay, my next question for you is, after 65,000
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wikipedians decided to title the article on this
thing. Looking behind you can see you can look

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now.

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worn? No.

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That is not correct. We still titled The article
maze. I'm too much to the chagrin of many talk

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page people who do not like that we call it
maze. Anyway. All right. Next question. Why was

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the girlfriend article nominated for deletion?
Eight times?

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Probably disambiguate. Big disambiguation page.
I have no idea.

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The reason was because people said we can. I was
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one. So it must not exist. Or maybe like, for
maybe a bad reaction to a breakup, just deleting

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the entire concept of girlfriend from the
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was Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Every time it
was kept, um, Okay, next question for you, Ryan.

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Which of these lists has the most items? Okay,
good. I didn't give away the answer, which has

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the most items. Helicopter prison escapes,
people who have lived in airports, people who

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have died on the toilet, or people who
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I'm going to die on a toilet.

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I believe you should check me because I haven't
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the answer is those of people who disappeared
mysteriously at sea. Very long,

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mildly disappointing. Um,

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okay. And my last question for you, Ryan. Which
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most views in the past month and don't like the
screen because I'm going to show everyone the

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answers

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on the World Trade Center articles. Yep. So this
term? Yeah.

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I don't know how many articles like this. I
can't even I can't hear it. So. Which other

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Well, you got the first and second ones Correct.
Immediately. So I give it to you.

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New York Stock Exchange building? Yeah. That's
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Center. Hmm.

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Maybe we shouldn't be reading that. Sounds
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Yeah, it is. Yeah.

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Me Your Last Week Tonight article? No, no. Some
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take a wild guess here. I'm gonna say. Yeah,
actually, I don't know. What what buildings

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would have liked Hi, Article count a few counts,
unfortunately. So yeah, let me think about it.

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And because I have no no idea what buildings
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Because they're all interesting to you and all
they're all your babies. Yeah. You can all you

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you've had the first and second one. Correct.
You want to see the answers? Yeah, sure. Okay.

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New York City subway map one Vanderbilt Seven
World Trade Center in 1987 to 2001 which I guess

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counts in your first guest of the World Trade
Center articles. Citicorp Center engineering

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crisis on me and New York Stock Exchange
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Yeah, I should get one Vanderbilt. Yes. Are
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do you think? Yeah, I think all like all decent.
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knowing you they're probably good articles.

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Yeah. Florida, Florida, Mr. Go to featured I
know that for sure. So

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nice. Well, everyone give a round of applause to
Ryan. That is all I had. That was my tiny little

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overview of Wikipedia as Big Bang, there's so
much more in there when you talk to the actual

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people that were there. But when you're looking
at the actual Big Bang, really all you're going

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off of is telescopes and cosmic background
radiation. And all I went off was archived pages

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and old emails. So not a complete picture, but
it does tell you a little bit about how the

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encyclopedia was and a little bit about how it
is today. Thank you so much for coming and for

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being here. I will see you. Yeah.

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I would like to ask for your cosmic and
radiological thing. Because 15th of January of

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the 14th and 15th of January, fantastic
celestial event, which is called Sankranti. Or

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we who are many, many names across Indian
subcontinent, because the sun in its trajectory,

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processors practical of Capricorns so it's
deliberated all across the Indian subcontinent,

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and always falls between 14th and 15th of
January, and considered one of the most

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auspicious day of the year in which Wikipedia is
also celebrating his birthday. And also

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signifies you know, the you know, like lack of
hope and the harbingers of the thing.

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Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you. I even
checks before this. If it was a full moon on the

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day Wikipedia was created and it was not.
Thank you.