Wikipedia's 10th anniversary : message from founder Jimmy Wales

I'm Jimmy Wales,
founder of Wikipedia,

and today we're celebrating
the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia.

It's hard to imagine
that it's been ten years

since I first edited Wikipedia.

I remember that first day.

I clicked on "Edit"
and I wrote "Hello World"

and that was the beginning of Wikipedia
and all the things that have come since then.

Today we've got millions of articles

in hundreds of languages.

These days about 400 million people a month
visit the website

and that's just an astounding thing
to have happened.

If you really think about
the impact on our culture

it's staggering.

And it's all thanks to you.

I want to thank
everybody who's helped.

I want to thank all the people
who've edited Wikipedia,

who've contributed
to this great knowledge base.

I want to thank everybody
who's reading Wikipedia

who's really engaging
with ideas and knowledge.

That's what we made it for.
We made it for you to read.

And I've a little bit of a call to action,
a little request for everybody.

Even though that we've got
millions of articles.

Even though we're in hundreds of languages.

There is still lot of work to do.

So I want everybody out there
if you've never edited Wikipedia, try it.

Give a try. Click on "Edit".

You see some problems?
Fix it for us.

We really appreciate it.

And... Well.
Happy birthday Wikipedia.

Wikipedia : 10 years of sharing the sum of all knowledge