"From the start in 2001, I envisioned Wikipedia as a company with just one employee who did coding. The rest would be handled by those who volunteered to write

"From the start in 2001, I envisioned Wikipedia as a company with just one employee who did coding. The rest would be handled by those who volunteered to write and edit entries and monitor them." A lot of poetic licence here, given that Wikipedia was Larry Sanger's idea and the Wikimedia Foundation was not established until 2003 ... and today has over 500 paid staff.