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      Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia

      Released Oct 20, 2010 1h 25m Documentary List
      Reviews 56% Audience Score 50+ Ratings The history and cultural impact of one of the most referenced sites on the internet, featuring an interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Read More Read Less

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      Christopher Long Movie Metropolis The question is whether there's a way to make that freely-available knowledge less... sh***y. Rated: 7/10 Sep 23, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A balanced and detailed look on both the good and bad points of Wikipedia including its accuracy, its ideology, its importance to free information, the history of its founders Wales and Sanger, and the community of Wikipedians. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member As a WP editor since 2005 and administrator since 2007, I figured that between my experience and reading Andrew Lih's book "The Wikipedia Revolution", that I had a pretty good handle on Wikipedia's beginnings and Jimmy Wales' vision. Nonetheless, this film provides a clearer picture of the motives that drive Wales' vision, and provide a well-needed platform for critical discussion of Wikipedia, with plenty of screen time given to advocates and dissenters of the project. It's entertaining and informative, and a good primer for the newbie as to how Wikipedia works, and highlights some of the flaws if addressed, could improve both the project and public perception of it, particularly academic and scholarly perception of it. The one area where it falters is in its omission of any discussion, and almost any mention of the site's Verifiability and Citation policies, which should've been addressed during interviews in which the talking heads talked about the site's reliability and the conflict between emphasis on experts or non-experts. If a given passage in an article is sourced to an article in The New York Times, or a book by Gore Vidal or Noam Chomsky, then that passage should be considered reliable, and articles that are generally well-written and entirely sourced (which, when vetted for quality are called Featured Articles) should be as well. One talking head in the film does allude to the problem of how the community harbors an inconsistent commitment to adherence to the site's fundamental policies, which I've long argued on the site needs to change. In any event, this is a good film for the newcomer or the veteran. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Decent doc on a pretty interesting company. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The history and cultural impact of one of the most referenced sites on the internet, featuring an interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
      Director
      Scott Glosserman, Nic Hill
      Producer
      Craig Shapiro
      Production Co
      Glen Echo Entertainment, Underdog Pictures
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 20, 2010, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 3, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 25m
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