"I take a half-full-glass view, based on a different understanding of what [Wikipedia's competition is]: not the traditional professionally produced encyclopedias, but the legions of sites that, springing up all over the Web, purport to contain answers, unverified and often unverifiable, to every topic on earth. Against that standard, Wikipedia is a resounding success."
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Bertrand Meyer in Defense and Illustration of Wikipedia, ETH Zurich / Eiffel Software (6-7 January 2006)
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