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Via DoL: "Stacy Shiff, in an entertaining New Yorker article on the history of the Wikipedia project, asks Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales about his influences, and he replies by citing Hayek:
"'I’m very much an Enlightenment kind of guy,' Wales told me. The promise of the Internet is free knowledge for everyone, he recalls thinking. How do we make that happen?
"As an undergraduate, he had read Friedrich Hayek’s 1945 free-market manifesto, 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' which argues that a person’s knowledge is by definition partial, and that truth is established only when people pool their wisdom."
