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Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.
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