LIFT 07 – Day 2 – Conference day
Laurent Haug is opening the first main conference day.
550 attendees from 30 countries.
1st Speaker; Florence Devouard, Cahirman of the Board, Wikimedia Foundation.
- 727 Million internet users in the world
- Wikipedia is 6th with 155 M. Top 5 are Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, ebay, and Time.
Principles;
- collect local, collect global.
- Manipulate huge amounts of data
- Reactivity
Florence sees 4 global trends;
- virtually unlimited space
- nurturing a critical mind
- empowering people
- A priori trust – opening the gates rather than closing them.
That last point is harder fro Europeans.
2007 – 6 M articles in 250 languages. 600 servers by summer, and $5 M budget. Average donation – $20.
Finally vandalism not so much a problem. Larger issues are small date changes, politicians and individuals self promoting. Lacking content from Africa, and Asia. China blocks Wikipedia.
