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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.
Jimmy Wales
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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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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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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 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 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 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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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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