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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.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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 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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll it's a cultural shift.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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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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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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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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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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