Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia and Yahoo!

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Jimmy Wales - Wikimedia Foundation

As our relationship with Yahoo has grown over the past year, we began to talk about other ways that Yahoo could help us. One theme that made sense for both of us was to think about Yahoo's global reach and Wikipedia's global goals. As we have grown it has become apparent that we can better serve our visitors by adding data centers around the world.

Adam at April 7, 2005 02:52 PM

Wikipedia is currently the best system for synthesizing and oragnizing the immense range of human thought. If you want the opinion of an expert--go to an expert; if you want to know who the experts are and where to find them--go to Wikipedia.

Jesse Hogan at April 7, 2005 02:29 PM

Wikipedia has 520,549 articles. I am willing to bet that more than a few of those articles are not about "geek" subjects. All of the articles I have read in Wikipedia have been very high in quality except for some very minor ones.

EliasAlucard at April 8, 2005 02:50 AM

Wikipedia is ALWAYS growing and improving, so just because an article sucks as of right now, that doesn't have to be the case in a year from now. In ten years, Wikipedia is without a doubt the best and most reliable source when it comes to knowledge... if not much earlier than that, and possibly, as we speak.

Slim at April 8, 2005 03:58 AM

The only area where Wikipedia is growing is in it's geek and pop-culture articles. If you want to know what an Orc is, or the history of Linux, then use Wikipedia. Anything else, and you're better off going to the library.