Photos: It's a Wikipedia world

Photos: It’s a Wikipedia world

By Bill Detwiler August 4, 2006, 3:18 AM PDT billdetwiler

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During a keynote speech at the Wikimania conference in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales urged “Wikipedians” to focus on quality over quantity of encyclopedia entries.

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Wales started his keynote speech at with a video segment of thern”Colbert Report” that poked fun at Wikipedia and people’s ability to change encyclopedia entries. Seated next to Wales was Brad Patrick, general counsel and interim CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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