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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."1 - Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia, in July 2004. "I only use Wikipedia for things I know cold, looking for a terse description to share with my daughter doing homework so I don't have to write it myself. But if I don't know the subject, I would never consider Wikipedia as a source of information. The biggest issue is that Wikipedia provides no information on who posted the story, the writer's credentials or the motives behind changes."2 - Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management, Wharton University, in January 2006. Introduction
Wikipedia was a result of an experiment to collect information for another project called Nupedia8. Wikipedia's Growth Story - Next Page >>
1] "Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales Responds,"
www.interviews.slashdot.org, July 28, 2004.
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