In 2001, he and Larry Sanger took the idea of an encyclopedia and made it open to collaboration and editing by anyone by putting it on easily editable "wiki" software (from the Hawaian phrase "wiki wiki," meaning "quick").
他與 Larry Sanger 在 2001 年時，將百科全書採網路集體創作、共同審核方式，開放各國、多語文版本的建立及申請。