Jimmy Wales expect from the Wikipedia initiative. Many of the early contributors to the site were familiar with the model of the free culture movement, and, like Wales, many of them sympathized with the open-source movement. Wales has said that he was initially so worried about the concept of open editing, where the encyclopedia, that he would awaken during the night and monitor what was being added. Nonetheless, the cadre of early editors helped create a robust, self-regulating community that has proven conducive to the growth of the project. In a talk at SXSW in 2016, he recalled that he wrote the
Wales Co-operative Centre the Communities First Support Network to support the work of the Communities First Programme . The Coalfields Regeneration Trust provided further funding in 2002 for the Centre to administer the Debt Redemption and Money Advice Scheme to protect those most at risk from doorsetep lenders. The Centre secures European Objective One funding in 2004 to continue work in developing co-operatives and leads to a major expansion of the Centre. In 2005, the Welsh Assembly Government's 'Social Enterprise Strategy for Wales' formally recognises the role which social enterprises and co-operatives play in economic development. Communities@One is launched by the Communities Directorate