Jimbo Wales is authoring Lawrence Lessig’s Blog for the next 10 days.

He’s also giving the keynote at Wikimania, the first major conference of the Wikimedia Community, and his keynote opening talk on Friday will be entitled “Ten Things That Will Be Free”.

The list is inspired by Hilbert’s problems. In 1900, at a conference in Paris, German mathematician David Hilbert presented 10 problems, from a list which ended up being 23. These problems influenced mathematics strongly in the coming years, serving as a focal point for the research and work of thousands of mathematicians.

I hope that my list will serve as a similar inspiration for the free culture movement. Many of the 10 are already well under way but need definition and focus, a coming together of a single coherent community. Others are in the earliest stages.

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“Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” This is the Wikipedia mission statement.