Jimmy Wales Outlined Wikipedia Vision in 2004 as Site Had Fewer Than 200,000 Articles
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Updated · The Dispatch · Jul 3
Jimmy Wales Outlined Wikipedia Vision in 2004 as Site Had Fewer Than 200,000 Articles
3 articles · Updated · The Dispatch · Jul 3
Summary
In a 2004 Slashdot interview, Jimmy Wales said Wikipedia aimed to give “every single person on the planet” free access to “the sum of all human knowledge.”
Fewer than 200,000 articles were listed at the time, underscoring how early the online encyclopedia still was when Wales laid out that ambition.
The report revisits that interview as a snapshot of Wikipedia’s founding mission and the scale of its original aspirations.