Collaborative usage of the internet is rising. |
Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are. |
Especially with politics, it gets more and more borderline on what's in bad faith or good faith. Reasonable people can find a way to work together. Unreasonable people get blocked, of course. |
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. |
I joke a lot that (choosing to be a nonprofit) was either the best thing or the worst thing I've ever done. But I think that the site wouldn't have been successful with ads. People might not be so quick to contribute. |
I was very pleased, just to see that (the study) was reasonably favorable. I think it provides, for us, a great counterpoint to the press coverage we've gotten recently, because it puts the focus on the broader quality and not just one article. |
I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games. |
If they are just adding factual information, that'd be fine. But it's very hard to be neutral if you're political and supporting one candidate. |
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. |
It's a mass collaboration to build all kinds of things. It's becoming a new model for doing things on the Internet. |
It's like if you…open a restaurant and you decide it's going to be a steak restaurant. As a steak restaurant, the customers are going to have knives. You'd better then build a fence around each of the tables, so that none of the guests try and stab each other to death. Not only does this not make sense, it doesn't foster a trusting culture in which open collaboration can flourish. |
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together. |
Most of the prominent contributors are not anonymous. We are an actual community in the sense that we know each other and have fun working together. |
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. |
No, we don't pay for publicity, never have and most likely never will; it hasn't been necessary, and I don't see that it will be necessary. |