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“Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.”

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

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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

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Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

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It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

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