How a ragtag band created Wikipedia Jimmy Wales. Yovisto Academic Video Search. TED Talks Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. 1962 start britannica radical encyclopedia ideal volunteers wikipedia software definition wiki wikimedia divide digital poverty funding employee true hoax community deletion organisation social society wit gil 4li gag wag wmi lce yea