“In the staff June Metrics meeting in 2015, the ideation was beginning to form in my mind from what I was learning through various conversations with staff. I had begun visualizing open knowledge existing in the shape of a universe. I saw the Wikimedia movement as the most motivated and sincere group of beings, united in their mission to build a rocket to explore Universal Free Knowledge. The words “search” and “discovery” and “knowledge” swam around in my mind with some rocket to navigate it. However, “rocket” didn’t seem to work, but in my mind, the rocket was really just an engine, or a portal, a TARDIS, that transports people on their journey through Universal Free Knowledge.”

—Lila Tretikov

keys slapping the steering column as lights carve the three-AM fog with fingers withdrawing to deliver and unlock a glistening smile

‘I’m glad I wrote it.’

‘It’s the most painful thing I’ve ever read.’

‘I’m sorry.’

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