“I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.”

— Larry Sanger

"Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin (31 December 2004) http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25.

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