From long time, people working behind non-free encyclopidias, like Britannica, are fighting out behind Wikipedia claiming that it doesn't provide accurate information.
Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales, decides to make an opening montage for the documentary film Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story, an intimate study of the rise of Internet technology and one man’s (and one hundred million volunteers’) quest to provide free knowledge to the entire world. May be to prove to the world that Wikipedia is important and realiable as a reference for information for research. As being reported in Wikidocumentary About page: Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story will use in-depth interviews with many influential thinkers to provide legitimate analysis and critic of the movement. Richard Stallman (developer of the GNU software movement), and Lawrence Lessig (from Creative Commons, the free licensed media foundation) and former vice president Al Gore will discuss how the Internet should be used by society to freely share information. Noam Chomsky: intellectual, political activist, and professor of linguistics, and Howard Zinn author of ‘People’s History of the United states’ will describe the conflict over control of propaganda/information and explain why it’s so important for the masses not only to create, but also to edit their own media and have free access to it. On the flip side, the film will use many college professors, encyclopedia contributors, comedians and academic historians who simply dismiss the Internet free knowledge movement on the basis of its potential inaccuracy. 
Mido know about it from English Wikipedia by chance and he send an email to Arabic Wikipedia Mailing List on Apr 21, 2007 to ask for volunteers that's interested in such meeting in Cairo. Mohamed Mostafa, Alnokta (Mohamed Magdy), Ahmed Hashim and me managed to join the meeting at 8:00 PM downtown in Cairo. We had difficulty getting in time because of traffic jam in Cairo streets and had another difficulty, also, finding a place that could allow us to have video recording but at last we managed to find a good place and we start the interview managed by John and Brishen. We enjoy the time chatting about Wikipedia effeciency, benefits, motivations to contribute and difficulties in Arabic Wikipedia. Their next step to meet Wikipedia guys in Alexandria. See more interviews in different cities around the world: Cape Town, South Africa Delhi, India Varanasi, India Chennai, India Jakarta, Indonesia Taipei, Taiwan Seoul, Korea East Coast, USA Beijing, China Wish ours being broadcasted soon and thanks for John and Breshin for that enjoyable meeting.  Technorati Tags: Culture Egypt In English News Technology Volunteering Wikipedia أخبار بالانجليزية تطوع ثقافة مصر wikipedia wikidocumentary cairo |
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