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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
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It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll it's a cultural shift.
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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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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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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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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
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The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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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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I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
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We have to come together, worldwide, and think. We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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