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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The Endurance of Wikipedia with Katherine Maher

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Msnbc, The Chris Hayes Podcast, Government, Politics, Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening?, Withpod, Versant, Ms Now, News, Society & Culture, Versant Media

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Wikipedia is a vestige of an earlier de-commodified, open sourced internet. This week Katherine Maher, the departing CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, joins to talk about the history of Wikipedia, its organization, and its ability to endure amidst a changing internet.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Wikipedia continues to evolve as information changes,

0:03.0

which helps it prevent becoming static out of date.

0:06.9

As we learn more about the world as our understandings

0:09.6

of what constitutes really kind of anything evolve,

0:14.0

we edit Wikipedia and our knowledge evolves along with it.

0:16.8

So there's that component piece

0:18.4

and these different approaches which are codified

0:21.6

in Wikipedia's policies from these different sectors

0:25.1

has proven to be really resilient

0:27.0

for the production of high quality information.

0:30.5

Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me,

0:35.2

your host, Chris Hayes.

0:36.2

I spend a lot of time in the internet.

0:42.0

You probably know that if you listen to the podcast,

0:44.4

you probably spend a lot of time in the internet.

0:45.8

In fact, I think during the pandemic,

0:47.3

we all basically plugged our brains in the internet

0:49.5

nonstop and it drove us all collectively mad.

0:52.5

And this is a sort of recurring theme on this program

0:57.7

about why does the internet suck,

1:00.4

which is overstating the case

1:01.9

because there's lots of great things on the internet.

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