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Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

Wikipedia celebrates its 12th birthday today. Of course, I have no idea if it's true. I read it on Wikipedia.

IMDb is kind of weird, because people can put things on there, but then I can't change it.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

Wikipedia is an amazing construct. It's a commons that works. I don't know how Jimmy Wales came up with it. I'm sure all of us would have said, "This is the stupidest thing we've ever heard of. That'll never work in a million years."

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

In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.

Wikipedia's funny. Some of the stuff on there - I go there occasionally - it's unbelievable the amount of stuff that people will write on there.