Jessica Wade: belief

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…Jimmy Wales, of course. He was a great episode. Okay. He’s just the coolest, isn’t he? He’s so cool. Fangirl, massively. I’m going to listen to that also on the way home. I do think that you’ve got an extraordinary culture in the Wikimedia Foundation, the people who facilitate Wikipedia. They’re very global. There are only about 200 people who actually work for the Wikimedia Foundation. They’re very young, they’re very enthusiastic about open source, they’re very forward-thinking in what this encyclopedia should be, and they’re always pushing boundaries, changing the interface, changing the graphic design — all of these different things to make the user experience better and the editor experience better. I think that from that nature — because you’ll have this push from the actual employees — we just need to do that part, as the community that Wikipedia is serving, to make sure that the editorship represents the kind of global community who read Wikipedia. I think if we keep pushing for that, then it doesn’t have to ossify and become backwards and archaic. We can keep progressing for something that’s more fair and equal and representative for everyone. Your own research — you’ll be able to explain all of it for us. There are four concepts I want to put on the table: chiral materials, Raman spectroscopy, nanotech, and quantum computing. What you do relates to all of those four, right?…

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