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 Wikipedias 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?
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