Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
How I Built This with Guy Raz
The Impact of Wikipedia on the World Wide Web
In two weeks, you had more articles on wikipedia than newpedia had generated in the previous two years. This was all being run out of ware like, did you have an office in san diego, or was it your apartment, or what? Small office; we had a few programmers and sort of cheap office in a warehouse space. So i guess you very quickly realize that Wikipedia is good, could potentially be huge. Yes, it did. I mean it. You know, i remember looking at a list of the top web sites at the time, and there was an encyclopaedia reference, kind of siht at ranked at number 50. And i thought,
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