Wikipedia Quotes

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia. (Gore Vidal)
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done. View quote
Jimmy Wales
I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [...] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. View quote
Jimmy Wales
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren't democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we're actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn't be writing. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad. View quote
Jimmy Wales
I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong. View quote
Larry Sanger
Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia. (Larry Sanger)
Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated). View quote
Larry Sanger
Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh,;-) View quote
Larry Sanger
Memory works like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people. View quote
Elizabeth Loftus
Can we trust transnational internet groups like Wikipedia, which are self-regulating and unaccountable, to determine or censor information for the public, to decide what are the facts in nearly all fields of life and learning? View quote
David Frawley
Social media owners and directors have long allowed or promoted an anti-Hindu and anti-India bias. Are not providing a neutral platform but have their own political agenda. This extends to Wikipedia as well. Time for them to be made accountable. View quote
David Frawley
Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then! View quote
Terry Pratchett
I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page. View quote
Craig Ferguson
What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia. View quote
George Ritzer
Yeah, but look, who really provided the world's information to everybody on Earth? That was Wikipedia, right? And if you're asking what could we do to make the digital world work for people, the Wikipedia model is great. It's a donation model. View quote
Paul Romer
I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut's five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me. (Rick Riordan)
Collective intelligence. 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. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation. View quote
Ben Mezrich
The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential. View quote
James Surowiecki
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. View quote
Ethan Zuckerman