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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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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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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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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 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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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 have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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