Wikipedia Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Hate, Ideas, Issues

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

  Clay Shirky

  Unending, Collectivism, Argumentation

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

  Ru Freeman

  Source

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Strong, Issues, Doe

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• When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, College, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.

  Jimmy Wales

  Goal, Effort, Community

  "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.

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• Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

  Stephen Colbert

  Morning, Confused, Blue

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• I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

  Nick Kroll

  Sacred, Internet, Source

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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.

  Nicholson Baker

  Facts, Incredibles, Messy

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

  Paul Saffo

  Dream, Lying, Wikis

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

  Jimmy Wales

  Profit, Non Profit

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

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• Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

  Nicholson Baker

  Shrines, Altruism

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Communication, Helping, Bigs

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

  Ben Mezrich

  People, Rumor, Facts

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• The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

  Jimmy Wales

  Believe, People, World

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• Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information.

  Jay Leno

  Data, People, Information

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• I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.

  Veronica Roth

  Links, Strange, Chains

  "Veronica Roth and Garth Nix: Sizing up two YA giants". Interview with Jenniffer Weigel, www.chicagotribune.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

  Nick Kroll

  Real, Lying, Interesting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.

  George Ritzer

  Facts, Produce, Consumers

  George Ritzer (2010). “Globalization: A Basic Text”, p.290, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

  Lance Armstrong

  Block, War, Two

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Google, News

  "Jimmy Wales: The Internet's Shy Evangelist". Interview with Emily Dugan, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2011.

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• I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

  Larry Sanger

  Thinking, People, Very Cool

  "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism". Personal Website, larrysanger.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

  Jimmy Wales

  Enough Time, Screw Ups, Given

  "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

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• I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Writing, Tired, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.

  Sue Gardner

  Choices, Shutting Down, Ads

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