“What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?”
“Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in anime.”
“The site I avoid at all cost is Wikipedia, which for many subjects I've found to be a trove of misinformation. I don't even have any desire to read my own Wikipedia article.”
“...phishing on Wikipedia is effective enough – and lucrative enough – to retain the interest of the dark net's richest dwellers. ... Although Wikipedia's editors work to root out the false links, it's a slow and never-ending fight.”
“In this era where we've seen the rise of these fake news websites and so forth, Wikipedia has had almost no problems with this at all. Simply because our community is quite – you know, it's their hobby to debate about the quality of sources, and it's very difficult to fool the Wikipedia community with this.”
“Wikipedia’s articles about history and religion have real-life impact on the world. What people read on Wikipedia shapes the opinions they form about politics, social justice and so forth. Therefore we need to make sure Wikipedia gets it right, and this project is going to help that goal.”
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Wikipedia es una enciclopedia en línea gratuita escrita y mantenida por una comunidad de voluntarios, conocidos como wikipedistas, a través de la colaboración abierta y el software wiki MediaWiki. Fundada por Jimmy Wales y Larry Sanger en 2001, Wikipedia ha sido alojada desde 2003 por la Fundación Wikimedia, una organización sin fines de lucro estadounidense financiada principalmente por donaciones de lectores. Wikipedia es la obra de referencia más grande y leída de la historia.
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