Wikipedia’s promise is nothing less than the liberation of human…

Wikipedia’s promise is nothing less than the liberation of human knowledge - both by incorporating all of it through the collaborative process, and by freely sharing it with everybody who has access to the internet. This is a radically popular idea.

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The Economist, 20 April 2006

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