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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.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.
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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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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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