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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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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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I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.
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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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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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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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