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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of true scientific discourse. It isn't.
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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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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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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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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 very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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 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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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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 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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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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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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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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