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CAPE TOWN – Last week Wikipedia hosted its annual conference (# Wikimania2018) on the African continent for the first time in Cape Town, South Africa.
Wikimania 2018 brought together over 700 people to discuss how to improve the diversity of knowledge represented on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites.
The theme of this year's conference was "Bridging the Gaps in Knowledge, the Ubuntu Way", aimed at bridging gaps in knowledge, especially those on African peoples, cultures and languages, Wikipedia and Wikimedia . One of the participants in the conference was the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales.
He co-founded Wikipedia in January 2001. His businesses as an Internet entrepreneur saw him founding the for-profit Web hosting company Wikia and the WikiTribune information website.
Today, Wales continues to help the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikipedia and its sister projects by serving as a spokesperson and board member of the Wikimedia Foundation. organization.
The role of Wales in the creation of Wikipedia has earned him the name of the list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2006.
The Infomist interviews Jimmy Wales on the decision to host Wikimania 2018 conference on the African continent, on its media project (WikiTribune) and its role in the media and the future of Wikipedia in the 4th industrial revolution.
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