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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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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'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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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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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