Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact.
I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
Wikipedia is so dangerous.
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.