User:Hansmuller/The sum of all knowledge

Jimmy Wales in the New Broadcasting House. Cellanr, Flickr september 2015.
Lecture by Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Talks at Google, 2016, pdf. "104,000,000 (notable things worth knowing)" on page 41.

    This page is related to Wikipedia:Prime objective and is a translation of the Dutch essay Wikipedia:De samenvatting van de menselijke kennis.

Founder Jimmy Wales once helped the Wikipedia movement to a mission statement and slogan about what we want:

"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."[1][2]

  • But The sum of all human knowledge, what might this mean? To many speakers of English as a second language sum is understood as a literal addition or compilation, as it turns out.

  1. ^ "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot.org (Interview, Q&A). SlashdotMedia. July 28, 2004. Retrieved October 3, 2017. Wikipedia is an excellent project, and Slashdot readers 'questions for Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales were just as excellent - as are Jimmy Wales' answers to 12 of the highest-moderated questions you submitted.
  2. ^ wikimediafoundation.org "Wikimedia vision". Retrieved May 10, 2020.