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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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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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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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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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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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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
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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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