Forum From the Archives: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales on How to Build Trust
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
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| 0:50.0 | Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. |
| 0:52.7 | Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can, for the most part, be written and edited by anyone, relies on trust. |
| 1:00.0 | Trust that the crowdsourced information is contributed in good faith and generally accurate. |
| 1:05.9 | And in this day and age, when trust in institutions and in each other is waning, it's striking that Wikipedia remains |
| 1:13.0 | one of the most visited websites in the world with billions of page views every month. |
| 1:18.8 | Founder Jimmy Wales has been thinking about why Wikipedia has been able to keep people's trust |
| 1:23.9 | for so long. It was founded in 2001. He's written a new book called The Seven |
| 1:28.9 | Rules of Trust, a blueprint for building things that last. And listeners, do you use Wikipedia? |
| 1:34.6 | Has it earned your trust? Jimmy Wales, welcome to Forum. Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:39.4 | So Wikipedia, I was reading your stats, gets 11 billion page views a month, and that's just the English language. |
| 1:47.2 | Wikipedia, there are more than 300 Wikipedia's and other languages? |
| 1:51.3 | Yeah, we're truly global in a way that most things aren't. |
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