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= Being bold is important on Wikipedia. =

Wikipedia is a global collaboration. People from all over the world build on each other's work.

A metaphorical equation for this phenomenon is:

$$1 + 1 = 3$$

Meaning, poetically, that two (or two million) come together and their work together is greater than the sum of their parts.

A possible origin for the concept greater than the sum of their parts is Aristotle's translated quote below.

“In the case of all things which have several parts and in which the  totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts,  there is a cause; for even in bodies contact is the cause of unity in some cases, and in others viscosity or some other such quality.”