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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

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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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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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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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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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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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