Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Walesis an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit Wikia web hosting company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 August 1966
CountryUnited States of America
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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We've had a lot of interest from investors, and it was really a matter of sorting through the investors to be sure that people who are investing were people who were believers in our mission.
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Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are.
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Especially with politics, it gets more and more borderline on what's in bad faith or good faith. Reasonable people can find a way to work together. Unreasonable people get blocked, of course.
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People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it. It's in poor taste...People have a lot of information about themselves but staying objective is difficult. That's the trade-off in editing entries about yourself...If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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No, we don't pay for publicity, never have and most likely never will; it hasn't been necessary, and I don't see that it will be necessary.
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Your user ID is the basis for your reputation. If you are doing good work, you will gain trust. If you do bad work it will get reverted. We don't care about your personal name or what your previous credentials are.
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We have constant problems where we have people who are trying to repeatedly abuse our sites.
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Somebody might contact you, but that doesn't mean they're administrators. They're just people who know how to use the search tool.
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We delete things that are not good. They're taken down for good reasons.
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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
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The purpose is really contained in the word 'freely licensed,' which is to make available to anyone in the world, in any language, a curriculum that they can copy, redistribute and modify, for whatever purpose they may have, for free,
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I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games.
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The idea that we are going to tighten our editorial 'rules' is completely not correct (and) the articles would not be frozen in perpetuity.