Operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization with seven salaried employees, Wikipedia has in six short years gathered 8 million volunteer-written articles in 253 languages and beat Encyclopedia Britannica for the title of the world's largest encyclopedia. This could be said to be the greatest achievement in knowledge gathering in the Web 2.0 era.
一個非營利組織，加上 7 名受薪員工，在短短 6 年間，靠著網民自動自發地編輯，讓維基百科透過 253 種語言，累積了 800 萬條的知識條目，取代已有百年歷史的大英百科，成為世界最大的百科全書，這正是網路 2.0 時代中，集體智慧的極致展現。