Jimmy Wales on The Seven Rules of Trust and Building Integrity at Scale

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the world’s largest free knowledge resource. Since launching Wikipedia in 2001 with the mission to create a free encyclopedia for every person on the planet in their own language, he has helped scale it into one of the top five most visited websites globally. A pioneer of the open knowledge movement, Wales has been named to Time’s list of the 100 most influential people. He is the author of The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last, distilling lessons from decades of building collaborative digital communities. He currently leads a Neutral Point of View working group within Wikipedia and is actively exploring trust-based social networking models through Trust Café.