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