What Wikipedia teaches us about balancing truth and beliefs | Katherine Maher

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Even with public trust at an all-time low, Wikipedia continues to maintain people's confidence. How do they do it? Former CEO of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher delves into the transparent, adaptable and community-building ways the online encyclopedia brings free and reliable information to the public -- while also accounting for bias and difference of opinion. "The seeds of our disagreement can actually become the roots of our common purpose," she says.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.4	If there's one thing that's painfully clear from politics and as we have fought a pandemic,
0:13.0	it's that we don't all share the same truths.
0:16.5	Today's talk addresses that.
0:18.5	Katherine Marr is a technologist, policy expert in the former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.
0:24.4	In her talk from Ted Monterey 2021, she shares an idea to increase trust and reduce polarization,
0:30.9	helping us find a way toward common ground.
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1:14.9	It is lovely to be with you here this evening.
1:17.1	So as you just heard, my name is Katherine Marr and I used to be until very recently the
1:22.6	CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the organization behind Wikipedia.
1:28.7	And my tenure coincided with a very strange time for information, a global crisis of fake
1:35.7	news and disinformation, which meant that our free knowledge movement really sort of stood
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