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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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 worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
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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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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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 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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