The man behind the world’s largest digital encyclopedia talks to Fortune Greece, republished with permission.
There are few digital platforms that have become as quietly indispensable as Wikipedia. With no ads, no subscriptions, and none of the noise that typically accompanies anything “big” on the internet, it has been operating for nearly a quarter of a century as the most stable knowledge infrastructure of the digital world. Behind it stands Jimmy Wales, a founder who seems almost stubbornly resistant to the logic of Silicon Valley.
