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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.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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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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