According to Wikiquote.org...
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Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.
...is attributed to Jimmy Wales and sourced to:
Wikipedia-l mailing list (23 October 2005)As far as I can tell, Jimmy Wales didn't publish anything to Wikipedia-l mailing list on that date, nor to the WikiEN-l mailing list. So, was his post a figment of our imagination, or was it oversighted, or did Wikiquote just make a typo (perhaps intending "2006" instead of "2005")?
That girl in Africa
