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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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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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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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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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 who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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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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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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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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