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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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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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