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Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  OUTLINE:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (05:10) - Origin story of Wikipedia
  (11:14) - Design of Wikipedia
  (18:07) - Number of articles on Wikipedia
  (24:18) - Wikipedia pages for living persons
  (45:11) - ChatGPT
  (58:42) - Wikipedia’s political bias
  (1:04:46) - Conspiracy theories
  (1:17:51) - Facebook
  (1:26:09) - Twitter
  (1:46:45) - Building Wikipedia
  (2:01:18) - Wikipedia funding
  (2:12:38) - ChatGPT vs Wikipedia
  (2:17:19) - Larry Sanger
  (2:22:51) - Twitter files
  (2:25:43) - Government and censorship
  (2:40:07) - Adolf Hitler’s Wikipedia page
  (2:51:49) - Future of Wikipedia
  (3:03:51) - Advice for young people
  (3:11:13) - Meaning of life

Transcript