Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story

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Truth in Numbers? The World According to Wikipedia

Directed by	Nic Hill and Scott Glosserman
Produced by	Scott Glosserman and Michael Feris Gibson
Written by	Scott Glosserman and Gabriel London
Starring	Jimmy Wales, Lawrence Lessig, Ward Cunningham, Richard Branson, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Lawrence Wright, James Woolsey, Andrew Keen, Len Downie, Simon Winchester, Bob Schieffer, KRS-One, John Seigenthaler, Sr., Susan Jacoby
Release date(s)	2009
Country	United States
Language	English
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Truth in Numbers? The World According to Wikipedia is an independent American documentary film now in post-production being produced by Glen Echo Entertainment in association with Underdog Pictures. This will be the first film to extensively and exclusively cover the phenomenon and global implications of Wikipedia.

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This graphic illustrates the collaborative nature of the wikipedia phenomenon.

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 beset by vandals and challenged by skeptics, posing compelling questions about whether Wikipedia's model can truly achieve its goal. The film intersperses co-founder Jimmy Wales' unusual rise to Internet super-stardom among the global implications of Wikipedia. Are entries factually accurate? Biased? Accountable? Does 'Jimbo' Wales possess the wisdom to ensure that Wikipedians aggregate knowledge correctly? Was he squandering donations on personal pleasures like massage parlors?