“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.”
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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.
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
