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Wikipedia is built by a passionate community of contributors around the world with a leader, Jimmy Wales, who is inspirational and empowers the others but doesn’t control the entity. He doesn’t hire or fire anyone and the community itself handles dispute resolution and outreach. It’s counter-intuitive, Mitch said, and kind of a big secret despite it’s there to be seen. “I don’t think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works or the opportunities it represents.” he said.

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Mitch noted that Wikipedia doesn’t have XML or semantic Web capabilities or a machine accessible way to run a query against information in site, Mitch said, but it would be far more valuable if it were available in that fashion. He mentioned Web 2.0 APIs (mashups) as a powerful way to amplify Wikipedia. But, he added Wikipedians are not technologists and that innovations will come “discontinuously.”

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