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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.

— Jimmy Wales

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My birthday wish for Wikipedia is: Let's go forward and see what we can do next.

Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. … [O]ne can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.

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What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.

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