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There are a handful of companies that define the tech landscape. We can all name them. Each year, most have a big developer conference where their CEOs get up and present the latest and greatest features they’ve been working on, with the global tech press looking on.
When Facebook released its platform allowing developers access to the social graph, it created an entrepreneurial ecosystem that spawned billion dollar companies. Imagine what value could come out of a Wikipedia platform, offering access to the sum total of human knowledge?
Wikipedia is the seventh busiest website in the world – one behind Amazon.com, Twitter is 12th – but since it’s not a commercial entity it doesn’t have these big PR events. A lot of its major milestones pass by unnoticed by the tech press, despite the fact that it’s the most successful piece of educational technology ever created.
For instance, did you know Wikipedia has a highly active social network inside it, with profile pages, newsfeeds and walls you can post on? That it has just launched a big data project, called Wikidata? Or that it’s doing a radical overhaul of its user experience this year?
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will do a showcase of some of the lesser known areas of the project and tell us about some of the major upcoming features that are to be launched at Wikimania, its first ever worldwide conference to be held in London next year.