Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at UNC
Who: Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
When: 3:30 Wednesday October 5
Where: 209 Manning Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://sils.unc.edu/about/visit.html
What: A talk about the world’s most popular encyclopedia and news source, Wikipedia and Wikinews by the man who invented and sustains them.
More about Jimmy and Wikipedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_wales
Sponsors: ibiblio.org
School of Information and Library Science
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Scholarly Communications Working Group
October 4th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
Are you going to record it? I’d love to be able to hear it.
October 5th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
The fine folks at Ibiblio.org recorded the talk on video. Should be available at http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers soon. (There are several other good speakers there now. Dan Gilmore, Doc Searls, Lawrence Lessig…)