Neither Sanger nor Wales expected very much from the Wikipedia initiative.[22][8] Wales, anticipating "complete rubbish", hoped that if they were lucky, Wikipedia might yield a couple of rough draft entries for Nupedia.[22] To the surprise of Sanger and Wales, within a few days of launching the number of articles on Wikipedia had outgrown that of Nupedia, and a small collective of editors had formed.
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Dear world, thank you for the wikipedia.