Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia (2010)
Imagine a world where everyone had access to the sum of all human knowledge
85 min
Although Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the Internet today, and it is already the 3rd most widely read 'publication' in human history, attracting 100 million unique visitors a month, this great social and academic experiment of our age is riddled with vandals and challenged by skeptics, posing compelling questions about whether Wikipedia's model can truly achieve its goal. The film intersperses founder Jimmy Wales' unusual rise to Internet super-stardom among the global implications of Wikipedia. Are entries factually accurate? Biased? Accountable? Does 'Jimbo' Wales posses the wisdom to ensure that Wikipedians aggregate knowledge correctly?
- Release date
- July 1, 2010
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Jeff MacDonald
- Budget
- $500,000
Trailer
Cast
- Richard Branson as Self
- Vint Cerf as Self
- Ed Chi as Self
- Noam Chomsky as Self
- Dan Cohen as Self
- Ward Cunningham as Self - Inventor of the Wiki
- Len Downie as Self - Executive Editor of The Washington Post
- Susan Jacoby as Self
- Scott A. Jones as Self - Chairman of Cha Cha; Chairman of GraceNotes
- Brewster Kahle as Self
Crew
- Scott Glosserman · Director
- Nic Hill · Director
- Michael Ferris Gibson · Producer
- Scott Glosserman · Producer
- Jeff MacDonald · Composer
- Roddy Blelloch · Cinematographer
- Nic Hill · Cinematographer
- Eric Koretz · Cinematographer
- Adam McDaid · Cinematographer
- Madeleine Gavin · Editor
- Nic Hill · Editor
- John Murillo · Editor
- Kate Taverna · Editor