The founder of Wikipedia, Huntsville\u2019s Jimmy Wales, has a book coming out later this month that he hopes will provide lessons on civility for America\u2019s increasingly partisan atmosophere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last\u201d is due in bookstores Oct. 27. <\/p>\n
The book is billed as \u201ca sweeping reflection on the global crisis of credibility and knowledge, revealing \u2018the rules of trust\u2019 that transformed Wikipedia from a scrappy experiment into a global utility used by billions of people\u2014and how those rules can help others build things that last.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wales, a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama, founded Wikipedia in 2001 with Larry Sanger as an online encyclopedia operating as a non-profit with thousands of anonymous creators and fact-checkers. <\/p>\n
He spoke about his journey with the website during a 2016 visit to Alabama here<\/a> and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n Every month people view Wikipedia 11 billion times\u2014just in the English language. However, to do that, the site stresses the need for civility and honesty. As Wales says, he doesn\u2019t run the site, it runs him. <\/p>\n In an interview with The New York Times<\/a>, Wales responded to criticism – some of it from Sanger, some from billionaire Elon Musk – that Wikipedia is a repository for left-wing talking points. He also said the atmosphere in the media and online <\/p>\n \u201cIn day-to-day life, people still do trust each other,\u201d Wales said. <\/p>\n \u201cPeople generally think most people are basically nice and we\u2019re all human beings bumping along on the planet trying to do our best. But the crisis we see in politics \u2014 trust in politicians, trust in journalism, trust in business \u2014 is coming from other places and is something that we can fix.”<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of Wikipedia, Huntsville\u2019s Jimmy Wales, has a book coming out later this month that he hopes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":321002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-321001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115411845657285897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}