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Article: Wikipedia Founder Seeks More Quality
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- August 4, 2006
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The founder of Wikipedia on Friday urged contributors to the free Internet encyclopedia to put more emphasis on quality instead of quantity.
With more than 1.2 million articles in English alone, Wikipedia already has met its goal of becoming a comprehensive encyclopedia, founder Jimmy Wales told more than 300 people at the start of "Wikimania," a three-day gathering of people devoted to Wikipedia and other community Web projects.
But even while Wikipedia's vast scope exceeds that of traditional encyclopedias, Wales said Wikipedia would become even more valuable if entries were written less choppily, for example, or better identified their sources.
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