The Wikipedia Promise

APPROPIATE

2021 / 52min.

Rating6.6

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Synopsis

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?

Directors

André Schäfer

Actors

John F. Kennedy

Jan Böhmermann

Nelson Mandela

Jimmy Wales

Andrew Keen

Simon Winchester

Larry Sanger

May Hachem

Emna Mizouni

Dumisani Ndubane

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