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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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We have to come together, worldwide, and think. We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
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Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.
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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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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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