User:Satori Son
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"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
"It is my intention to get a copy of Wikipedia to every single person on the planet in their own language. It is my intention that free textbooks from our wikibooks project will be used to revolutionize education in developing countries by radically cutting the cost of content.
"Those kinds of big picture ideals make people very passionate about what we're doing. And it makes it possible for people to set aside a lot of personal differences and disputes of the kind that I talked about above, and just compromise to keep getting the work done.
"I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
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- Jimmy Wales
- July 28, 2004 [1]
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[edit] How You Can Help
- Review the list of newest articles (offset by 10,000). These articles are around 3-5 days old, depending on volume, but still lots to clean up and improve there.
- Visit and comment on AfD nominations with a low number of evaluations. It's difficult to reach consensus with only two or three opinions, so your input would be greatly appreciated.
- Dive into WikiProject: Fact and Reference Check. There is a huge backlog over there, and we are in desperate need of good researchers and fact checkers.
- Look over the lists at Requested Articles. If you see something you're familiar with, take a stab at creating a new article.
[edit] My Milestones
- First article created: May 3, 2006
- 1,000th edit: August 22, 2006
- First image uploaded: September 20, 2006
- 2,000th edit: September 21, 2006
- First AfD closure: October 12, 2006
- 3,000th edit: October 20, 2006
- 4,000th edit: December, 2006
[edit] Barnstars
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| For your tireless work keeping Wikipedia free of cruft, I award you the Barnstar of Diligence. Your comments on Articles for Deletion are exemplary for their fair, thorough, and precise nature. You are a credit to the encyclopedia and a model for its community. Vectro 04:16, 18 October 2006 (UTC) |
