Wikipedia’s Wales Oz-bound
ADELAIDE – The founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, will
visit Australia next month as a key speaker at a series of seminars on the
future of knowledge.
The seminars, to be hosted by education.au, will kick off in Adelaide on
April 23.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is
considered the fastest growing reference resource in the world. Launched in
2001, it is the 12th most visited Web site in the world and the 10th in
Australia.