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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.
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I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
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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'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 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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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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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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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