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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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.
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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 is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.