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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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The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.
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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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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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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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