Jimmy Wales - Photo: Christopher Morris/VII

How Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia Harnessed the Web as a Force for Good

Encyclopaedia Britannica finally threw in the towel. In March 2012, after 244 years, the staple reference source of libraries and households ceased publishing its 32 dusty volumes. (It survives in digital form.) Who humbled the mighty Britannica? Jimmy Wales and his crowdsourced compendium of all the world’s knowledge.

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