Gainesville Sun: Wikipedia founder to speak tonight

Alligator: Wikipedia founder to give talk at UF

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
doors open at 7 pm
Emerson Alumni Hall, UF campus
1938 W. University Ave.
free and open to the public

Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is one of the top 20 most visited sites on the Internet, according to alexa.com. Wales is the chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. An internationally renowned speaker and former Internet entrepreneur, Wales is also a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Wales will speak on Wikipedia and the philosophy of free culture, relating it to universities’ commitments to access to knowledge and the public good. His keynote will be followed by questions from the audience, and a discussion panel.

Panel members are Wales and the following:

• Alex Goldman, sociology instructor and doctoral student, on using Wikipedia and wikis in education;
• T.J. Walker, professor emeritus of entomology, on open access to academic research;
• Ashley Wills, microbiology student, on medical research and university patent licensing;
• Clint Collins, director of operations at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, on open source software.

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Universities Allied for Essential Medicines is bringing their resolution to the floor of the Student Senate tonight.

FFC has signed UAEM’s Statement of Support, and FFC president Gavin Baker is sponsoring the bill. Former FFC secretary Ashley Wills is the president of UAEM; those who were around may remember UAEM meetings reserved in Free Culture’s name before UAEM was a registered student organization.
Supporters are encouraged to stand with the authors and sponsors during bill presentation tonight. The Senate meeting starts at 7:30 pm in Reitz Union room 282.

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On April 12, Florida Free Culture is hosting a public presentation by 

Jimbo Wales on the topic of free culture and its role in universities. 

Jimbo Wales is the founder and President of the Wikimedia Foundation, 

a non-profit corporation which operates Wikipedia.com, the Internet's 

collaborative, user- edited encyclopedia.  Doors will open at 7:00pm, 

with the keynote beginning at 7:30pm in the Banquet Room of Emerson 

Alumni Hall. The keynote will be followed by a discussion panel.  For 

more information please visit http://uf.freeculture.org/jimbo/

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