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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
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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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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of true scientific discourse. It isn't.
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open they're viewed as proprietary.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.
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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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