Websummit 2020 starts with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

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Today the websummit 2020 starts this year only online due to the epidemic that continues to plague the world, with the intervention of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

It couldn’t have started better, Jimmy Wales with a very clear vision, spoke about the security of Wikipedia, a semi-security, where someone who has just registered cannot make changes, but also how social networks are promoting theirs. content, based on clicks, likes and ads, with algorithms that choose their content based on formulas, blindly and sometimes in a wrong way, promote individuals and wrong ideas.

The future of Wikipedia was also one of the issues and the various projects it has underway, with several assistants asking questions such as what councils he would have for a young entrepreneur, Jimmy Wales advises to keep expenses as low as possible, in case the interest of investors that is always welcome, if it can have a better-negotiating force and if the investment does not go ahead, this does not make the project unfeasible.

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