"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."

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Source : "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.

Jimmy Wales

#Goal Quotes #Effort Quotes #Community Quotes

“Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.”

Source : "Detroit Free Press Wins Pulitzer Prize". Candice S. Miller, "Congressional Record", Volume 155, Number 59, United States House of Representatives, Page H4588, www.gpo.gov. April 22, 2009.
“What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.”

Source : Edd Doerr, Albert J. Menendez (1991). “Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid”
“They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2016). “Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 2: Dark Road to Darjeeling\The Dark Enquiry\Silent Night bonus story”, p.648, MIRA
“If marijuana kills all my brain cells, then how come I can still hear them all talking to me?”
“It feels good to give your fans something to feel good about.”
“At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.”
“I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.”
“The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win”

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