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
Are you going to record it? I’d love to be able to hear it.
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…)