Wikipedia Quotes

• A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

  Clay Shirky

  Process, Articles, Products

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

  Clay Shirky

  Done, World, Littles

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• The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Powerful, Notion, Contribution

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

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• The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

  James Surowiecki

  Innovation, Littles, Fields

  "Net Losses". www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2006.

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• Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

  Stephen Colbert

  Want, Firsts

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• If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

  John Lydon

  Use, Want, Ifs

  Source: mojo20.com

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• Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

  Clay Shirky

  Inspiration, People, Stones

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• Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Victory, Substance, Process

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• Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

  Jimmy Wales

  Views, People, Different

  "Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Gives $500,000 to Wikipedia" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Everybodys saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

  Sue Gardner

  Media, Should, Skeptical

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• Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).

  Larry Sanger

  Mean, Community, Disrespect

  "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin.org, December 31, 2004.

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• I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.

  Tara Brabazon

  Latin, Needs, Site

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• 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.

  James G. Stavridis

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

  Andrew Keen

  Thinking, Benefits, Paid

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

  Sue Gardner

  Practice, Disaster, Theory

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• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Media, Numbers, Passionate

  Press conference at Wikimania 2008, August 2008.

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• It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

  Jimmy Wales

  Rocks, People, Rock N Roll

  "Wikipedia founder gazes into site's future". Computerworld, August 18, 2006.

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• The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

  Jimmy Wales

  Community, Abuse, Needs

  "The Wisdom of One" by Nick Miller, www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.

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• Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

  Clay Shirky

  Weekend, Years, Ideas

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• You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

  Nora Ephron

  Cases, Versions

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• 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

  Jimmy Wales

  Fun, Creating, World

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• Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.

  Cass Sunstein

  Believe, Committed, Knows

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• There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.

  Ru Freeman

  Source

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Belief, Reason, Goodness

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• Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

  Clay Shirky

  Unending, Collectivism, Argumentation

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