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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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