Many of us know that Wikipedia is a free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. Yes, anyone can, even you. But what does that mean in practice? Anarchy? Mayhem? Can we rely on knowledge produced in this bazaar? In this Friday Funda talk, from her vantage point within the Wikimedia movement, Bishakha gave us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the online phenomenon that we know and experience as Wikipedia.
Bishakha Datta
Wikipedia Uncovered!
28 September 2012
Bishakha Datta is a Wikimedia Board member and the leader of the India-based non-profit Point of View. She has two decades of diverse, international experience as a non-profit practitioner, journalist and filmmaker dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture. She has worked with organizations from around the world and has completed her education from both Stanford University and Mumbai University. Wikipedia is as familiar to most of us as our daily soap – something we use and re-use every day without thinking or blinking.
