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Journalism is not a profession ... at its heart, it's just a craft. And that means that it can be practiced by anyone who is sensible and intelligent and thoughtful and curious ...

— Sue Gardner

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Gender is a huge hot-button issue for lots of people who feel strongly about it, I am not interested in triggering those strong feelings.

Since 1995 what the data says is each new generation of young people has become successively less supportive of democracy than the generation that preceded it.

The early days were a gold rush,They attracted lots and lots of people, because a new person could write about anything.

It [Wikipedia] was built 10 years ago and hasn’t changed that much, [but] we are looking for ways to increase serendipity. We are happily dependent on the inventiveness of the people who join us of their own volition.

The heart and soul of everything the Wikimedia project does is volunteer driven, it's volunteer energy, volunteer time, altruism, people's commitment to create this massive educational endeavour that's really available to everybody

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