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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 is what we are doing.
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Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.
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I am just a part of the community. The community built Wikipedia, not me.
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We do not want to be the company that monetizes knowledge. We want to be the institution that preserves it.
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The thing I regret most is not being clearer earlier about our neutrality policy. It took years to get the culture right, and we lost a lot of good editors to flame wars in the meantime.