[Chapter-delegates] Wikipedia at 10: Could Wikipedia be created today?

[Marcin Cieslak]

An op-ed of Sue Gardner of Wikimedia Foundation in the Guardian:

"Even so, I sometimes wonder if the power of Wikipedia to join people
together in a vast social enterprise was just an aberration. I fear
that the conditions that gave rise to it may be disappearing; I'm
not sure they still exist, or will exist 10 years from today.
Because, increasingly, we're seeing national governments restricting
what their citizens can do online – not just in countries like
China, Burma and Syria, but in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
and many other parts of the world. Technology firms, with almost
no accountability or oversight, are starting to make important
decisions that restrict our access to information: last year, Amazon
and Apple shut down their distribution of WikiLeaks material, and
PayPal stopped processing donations aimed at supporting it. And the
fate of network neutrality (the concept that aims to keep the
internet open and free) is under attack everywhere, particularly
in the mobile space, and I'm continually surprised by how few
Americans seem to understand the issue and why it matters."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/12/wikipedia-internet