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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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 worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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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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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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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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