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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open they're viewed as proprietary.
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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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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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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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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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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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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 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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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