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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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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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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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