There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.