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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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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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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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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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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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 worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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 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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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 spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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