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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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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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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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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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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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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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 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 zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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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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