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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wikipedia is turning 10, and founder Jimmy Wales has big plans

For a very long while, knowledge was privileged and so were books, and only privileged people had access to either. Then came printing presses and libraries, and in this printed age, knowledge was both more accessible and more alphabetical; one could flip through a leather-bound encyclopedia and learn all of the exports of Sweden.