Podcast HackThe Rise of WikipediaBy Stuff You Should Know, Josh Clark, Charles Wayne Bryant
In a Nutshell
On this June 2024 episode of the Stuff You Should Know podcast, hosts Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant delve into the origins Wikipedia and look at how the site's format, usage, and principles have shifted over the years.
Favorite Quote
In a large area, a swath of the world, there are Wikipedias for you in your language about your culture. Whether you speak Zulu or Tartar, or Sanskrit, Old English, Creole, Haitian Esperanto, Yoruba, Piedmontese, Yiddish, all of them have their own Wikipedia.
Josh Clark
Introduction
Wikipedia is the world's largest reference site, with millions of users and contributors from every corner of the globe. It is hugely popular and has always been free to use for anyone with access to the internet.
Every week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast, hosts Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explore the history and context behind a specific subject matter.
On this June 2024 episode, Clark and Bryant lift the lid on Wikipedia, the open-source reference site that changed the world.
The pair look into its unlikely origin story, periods of controversy, and how its identity has changed over the years.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
- 1.Wikipedia was created to present a utopian ideal of the internet
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