Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Quotations

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [...] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.