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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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