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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
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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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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 don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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