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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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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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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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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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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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