Il lancio di Wikipedia (avvenuto, ve lo ricordo, nel 2001) è stato scelto da Webby Awards come uno dei momenti più importanti per internet nell’ultima decade (2000-2001), con la seguente motivazione:

Containing 20,000 articles in 18 languages by the end of its first year online, Wikipedia today boasts more than 14 million articles in 271 different languages. The free open-source encyclopedia epitomizes the Internet’s power to bring strangers from around the world together to collaborate on projects both big and small.

Sue Gardner, Executive Director di Wikimedia Foundation, è stata scelta come media game changer of the year dai lettori dell’Huffington Post, con la seguente motivazione:

Taking the people’s online encyclopedia to the next level. Drawing on the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission of bringing free knowledge to everybody, executive director Gardner is overseeing a strategic plan to broaden access to Wikipedia’s vast storehouse of information. Her battle plan: making Wikipedia easier to use and available to more people worldwide. Expansion takes money, but it helps to be one of the Web’s five most-trafficked sites. In the depths of the recession, the foundation raised $3 million in ten days, completely covering its 2009 operating budget.

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