English subtitles for clip: File:Wikipedia 15 - Jimmy's greetings.webm

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Happy Wikipedia Day!

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So today is the 15th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia.

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We've gotten an amazing amount of work done in the last 15 years.

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Wikipedia now has over 34 million entries

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in nearly 300 languages.

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All around the world today, Wikipedia volunteers

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are celebrating, thinking about the past,

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but more importantly, thinking about the future.

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With 32 million entries, we've obviously come a long way,

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but there's a huge amount of work to do,

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particularly in the languages of the developing world,

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but also even in the really large languages.

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There's lots of work to do in terms of

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improving the quality, expanding to more and more

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obscure topics, and just basically trying to have some fun

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building something that the world is amazed by.

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I remember in the very early days of Wikipedia,

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I would get up in the middle of the night

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to check and read all the recent changes

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just to make sure nobody was vandalising the site and so forth.

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It's kind of funny to think about how that was possible back then.

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Now it's barely even possible to keep up with

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a moderate-sized watchlist, there's so much going on.

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So anyway, thank you everyone.

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Thank you for coming to the celebration.

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Thank you for all your hard work,

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and looking forward to an amazing next 15 years.