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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
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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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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'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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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 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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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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 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'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
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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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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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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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