[Web4lib] Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales on C-SPAN _Q&A_

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales on C-SPAN _Q&A_

Colleagues/

This past Sunday (9-25-05), Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, was the featured guest on _Q&A_, the C-SPAN interview program hosted by Brian Lamb [ http://www.q-and-a.org/] :

"Jimmy Wales discusses Wikipedia, a free online multi-language encyclopedia that anyone can edit." 
  [ http://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1042 ]

The Real Player streaming audio/video of the interview as well as a full transcript is available free-of-charge 

[ http://www.q-and-a.org/ ].

A podcast of this interview (as well as two others) is also available

[ http://www.c-span.org/podcast/qa_feed.xml ] 
[ http://www.c-span.org/podcast/ ]

A *Most Excellent* Informative Interview !!!

BTW: 'Jimbo' Wales will be a keynote speaker at WikiSym 2005 WikiSym 2005:the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis, Oct 16-18, 2005, San Diego, California, U.S.A. [ http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005  ]

Enjoy!

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Librarian 
and
Science Librarian
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu