As in ten years. That's how long Wikipedia has been around; today is their tenth anniversary. Here's a quote from an article about The Wiki in The Guardian:
Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. That statement is both ordinary and astonishing: it's a simple reflection of its enormous readership; and yet, by any traditional view about how the world works, Wikipedia shouldn't even exist, much less have succeeded so dramatically in the space of a single decade.
The cumulative effort of Wikipedia's millions of contributors means you are a click away from figuring out what a myocardial infarction is, or the cause of the Agacher Strip war, or who Spangles Muldoon was. This is an unplanned miracle, like "the market" deciding how much bread goes in the store. Wikipedia, though, is even odder than the market: not only is all that material contributed for free, it is available to you free; even the servers and system administrators are funded through donations. That it would become such a miracle was not obvious at its inception and so, on the occasion of its 10th birthday, it's worth retelling the improbable story of its genesis.
Worth reading, indeed. I don't know one single blogger who hasn't ever quoted The Wiki... not one. Wikipedia is indeed amazing and I think we ALL owe Jimmy Wales, Big-Time. Yet again... I 
technology. But even more than that... I entrepreneurs and the environment that makes them both successful and possible.
technology. But even more than that... I entrepreneurs and the environment that makes them both successful and possible.
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