Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

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

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.