25 Years of Wikipedia

Wikipedia turned 25 last month, and they created a website to showcase their journey, remind us about their core goals, and briefly look to the future. It is inspiring, as all things Wikipedia usually are.

I was skeptical of Wikipedia initially, from the little I remember. It still amuses me just how volunteer-driven humanity’s premier encyclopedia is. From the website:

[The Wikipedia authors’] work represents almost 25 years of humanity at its best—the humans of today, organizing themselves to benefit the humans of tomorrow.

Humanity at its best, indeed.

There’s a short quiz on the website about how you see the future and Wikipedia. I am, unsurprisingly, a ‘Data-Driven Researcher’ :).