Jimmy Wales
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Today, the site is visited by 400 million people a month. They explore the work of a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers, who as a group have produced and edited more than 11 million articles in 265 languages, numbers that continue to grow. "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge," Wales has written.