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IAR is policy, always has been.

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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 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 have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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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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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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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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