Jimmy Wales trusts the process
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Wikipedia turns 25, evolving from a joke to a trusted web foundation, now facing threats from authoritarians. Co-founder Jimmy Wales addresses these challenges in his new book on building lasting trust.
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Wikipedia will be 25 years old in January. During that time, the encyclopedia has gone from a punchline about the unreliability of online information to the factual foundation of the web. The project's status as a trusted source of facts has made it a target of authoritarian governments and powerful individuals, who are attempting to undermine the site and threaten the volunteer editors who maintain it. (For more on this conflict and how Wikipedia is responding, you can read my feature from September.)
Now Wikipedia's cofounder Jimmy Wales has written a new book, The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last. In it, W …