Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
Why the open web links it
Jimmy Wales recounts the creation of Wikipedia and the collaborative model that made it possible.
Linked by 12 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikimedia.org, toolforge.org, framasoft.org, gifu-u.ac.jp, ourbigbook.com.