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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 core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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 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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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