Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story

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Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story
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Directed by	Nic Hill
Starring	KRS-One Jimmy Wales Lawrence Lessig Brewster Kahle Ward Cunningham
Release date(s)	2008
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$55,134.43 (on October 25th 07)
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Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story is an American non-profit documentary film now in post-production directed by Nic Hill and written by Nic Hill and Michael Ferris Gibson. It was scheduled to be finished in 2007, and may be released both in the USA as well as worldwide in 2008. It looks at how open source projects (Wikipedia in particular) have changed the world on several levels. It also examines how Wikis and other OS projects work as well as the open source movement in general. The film is financed by donations which have reached over $55,000.

1 Synopsis
2 Cast and crew
3 Production
4 References
5 External links

Synopsis

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This graphic illustrates the collaborative nature of the wikipedia phenomenon.

The film primarily explores the unique human skill of communication and how it has evolved. It looks at the recording of history and the purpose of doing so. It further examines how today's mass media captures current events and communicates them to its users. The documentary then focuses on the organised information archives we call encyclopedias. It questions the way encyclopedias have been written in the past and focuses further on how the mass adoption of the Internet as a communication tool has influenced this process. The film looks at web based groups of people who have created vast networks of knowledge and at how the web continually challenges traditional media. Wikipedia is then presented as the best example of this relatively new phenomenon as it is the first site to mobilise the true potential of the Internet. It allows for the productive contribution of knowledge by any person on the planet free of charge.

Cast and crew

Michael Feris Gibson (Producer): For the last 14 years Michael Gibson has been making films in and around San Francisco. He has made documentary, horror, science fiction and animation films. He is best known for his documentary 24 Hours on Craigslist and the sci-fi feature NUMB.
Nic Hill (Director, Editor): Nic Hill completed the award-winning documentary Piece by Piece in 2005. He is the Director of Truth in Numbers as well as an editor.
John Hurillio (Cinematography, Main Editor)
Adam Hazard (Motion Graphics, Sound)
Brishen Mahoney (Art Director, Sound)

Noam Cohen wrote that he spoke with Nic Hill on a flight to Taipei from San Francisco and said,"[Hill] talked of his year filming Mr. Wales as he traveled around the world. He said he had come to see the power of the Wikipedia project to change the power relations in the country."^[1]

Production

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In Holland, the crew interviews Oscar van Dillen of the Wikimedia Foundation.

There are nine publicly available video podcasts on youtube which present a behind the scenes look at how this film is being made. The making-of podcast series includes:

Part 2: The crew wilds out in Seoul with a Scottish Wikipedian.
Part 3: The crew gets lost in Taipei, hooked up with sweets, and ponders the future of "Wii-Pedia".
Part 4: Cats in the airport, stone-age dial-up, but still getting some good flirt on with the Indonesian Wikipedians in Jakarta.
Part 5: The crew meets up with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in Chennai, India for WikiCamp.
Part 6: Dodging cows, monkeys and impossible directions the crew finally makes it to the beautiful Ganges river in Varanasi, India.
Part 7: Jimmy Wales gets "Juiced" in Delhi, and the crew celebrates Holi with pink faces.
Part 8: Nic and the crew hit the East Coast of America and get the skinny from internet pioneer Vint Cerf.
Part 9: The crew gets down to Cape Town, goes on Safari with Richard Branson, and gets real with digital education in Africa.
Part 10: The crew splits up: Nic heads to Australia with Jimmy Wales, while John and Brishen head up to Cairo and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria.

All the videos are also embedded in the movie's wikia page.

References

^ Noam Cohen (2007-08-04). Cheers and Boos as Wikipedians See Themselves on Film. Bits, New York Times blog. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.

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v • d • e History of Wikipedia
Main articles	Bomis · Nupedia · Wikipedia · Wikimedia Foundation · Wikimania · MediaWiki
People	Jimmy Wales · Larry Sanger · Florence Devouard · Angela Beesley
Events and individuals	Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China · Congressional staffer edits to Wikipedia · Essjay controversy · Seigenthaler incident · WikiScanner · Chris Benoit controversy · *Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story*
Wikimedia projects	Wikibooks · Wikimedia Commons · Wiktionary · Wikisource · Wikiquote · Wikinews · Wikiversity
Related projects and forks	Citizendium · Enciclopedia Libre · Interpedia · Veropedia · Wikia · WikiZnanie · Wikinfo · Wikiweise