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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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 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 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'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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