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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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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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 have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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 spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
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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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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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