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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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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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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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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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