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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
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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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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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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I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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