"America's daily political vitriol is an undeniable fact. Against that depressing background, it is good to be able to celebrate an American invention which, for all its faults, tries to spread around the world a combination of unpaid idealism, knowledge and stubborn civility."
— Wikipedia

January 1, 1970

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Timothy Garton Ash, "We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility," The Guardian (12 January 2011); and "Look it up: Wikipedia is turning 10", The Los Angeles Times, (14 January 2011).