People to Interview

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These are the people we hope to interview. Feel free to add to the list, if there is someone you think we should grill:


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[edit] Wikipedia Background

Jimmy Wales – Founder of Wikipedia

Larry Sanger – Co-Founder of Wikipedia and Founder of Citizendium

Ward Cunningham – Inventor of Wiki Technology

Ed Poor - first elected bureaucrat of Wikipedia - now on probation for "tendentious editing" after losing a battle over "neutrality" of key articles like Intelligent Design and Global Warming.

[edit] Free Software and Open Source Movement Innovators

Richard Stallman – Inventor of GNU

Linus Torvalds – Inventor of GNU/Linux

Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond – Founders of the Open Source Initiative

Eric S. Raymond – Expert on hacker culture

Joi Ito – Internet Entrepreneur and Futurist

Tim O'Reilly - Free software and open source publisher

[edit] Wikipedia Supporters

Lawrence Lessig – Electronic Frontier Foundation

Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Founders of Google

Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster – Craigslist.org

Nicholas Negroponte – Chairman of the OLPC (the $100 laptop project)

Rob Malda – Founder of slashdot

Ray Kurzweil – Author and Futurist

James Surowiecki – Author of 'The Wisdom of Crowds'

Howard Zinn – Author of 'A People's History of the United states'

Thomas L. Friedman – Author of 'The World is Flat'

Malcolm Gladwell – Author of 'The Tipping Point'

Edward S. Herman – Author of 'Manufacturing Consent' (with Noam Chomsky)

Yochai Benkler – Author of 'The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom'

Elonka Dunin - cryptologist, game-maker

Danah Boyd - academic, supportive and critical of Wikipedia

Cass R. Sunstein – Author of 'Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge'

Don Tapscott - Chief Executive of New Paradigm, author of Wikinomics

Brewster Kahle - Inventor of WAIS system. Director of the Internet Archive

Steven Johnson - author of "Emergence"

David Weinberger - author of "Everything Is Miscellaneous", Harvard Fellow, public speaker, NPR commentator

[edit] Wikipedia Detractors

Dale Hoiberg – Senior Vice President and Editor of Britannica Encyclopedia

Daniel Brandt – Creator of the website wikipedia-watch.org

John Seigenthaler – Biography 'hoax' victim on Wikipedia

Bill Thompson – Technology Writer

Danah Boyd – Researcher (on the "reliability" of Wikipedia)

Jean-Noel Jeanneney – Author: "Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge"

Robert McHenry - Encyclopedist (Wikipedia's "semiliterate meddler(s)")

William Emigh and Susan C. Herring – Professors, Indiana University

Robert Litman – Professor of Classical Language

Jaron Lanier - author of "Digital Maoism"

Eric Raymond - open source movement advocate.

Andy Schlafly, a conservative writer and attorney, Conservapedia Project Mgr

Shelley Powers, burningbird.net

Jason Scott, essayist and Wikipedia critic

[edit] Comic Relief

Stephen Colbert – Star of "The Colbert Report," who repeatedly inspired his fans to tamper with Wikipedia to demonstrate the flaws of "wikiality" (the notion that the facts are what a majority of people agree they are)

Writing Team of the Onion – A satirical newspaper

Jonathan Huang – creator of the satirical parody of Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia, "the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."

Chad Barbry – creator of Wookiepedia, the Star Wars Wiki.

Bernard M. Patten – author of 'Truth, Knowledge, Or Just Plain Bull'

Adam Curry – ex MTV VJ caught trying to edit his own entry

[edit] Major Personality Interviews

Al Gore – Former Vice President and Media Personality

Jeff Bezos - CEO of Amazon.com and Internet Innovator

Bill Gates – CEO of Microsoft

Steve Jobs – Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer

George Lucas – Film Director

Noam Chomsky – Professor of Linguistics at MIT / Media Activist

Howard Dean – Chairman of the Democratic Party

The four "Fathers of the Internet":

  • Vinton Cerf - Inventor of the Internet Protocol (IP)
  • Robert E. Kahn (Bob Kahn) - Inventor of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
  • Leonard Kleinrock - Inventor of packet switching
  • Lawrence Roberts - Chairman and president of Anagran Inc.; invented Qality of Service (QoS)

Tim Berners Lee - Inventor of the World Wide Web (URIs, HTTP and HTML)

[edit] Other Suggestions

Please feel free to add to this list.

Your suggestions are welcome and encouraged!

Time permitting you should consider interviewing 3-5 of the most active or influencial contributors to Wikipedia.

Time permitting you should consider brief interviews with ordinary individuals with the most hits or just plain everyday folks that use Wikipedia but do not know how to edit or create wikipedia pages.

  • User:SlimVirgin - Controversial Wikipedia administrator and prolific editor whose anonymity has been under attack
  • User:David Cat - Ordinary individual who spends about 4 hours a day on wikipedia.
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