The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

We don't need secrecy.