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
screw-ups enough-time wikipedia
Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.
media numbers wikipedia
I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [...] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.
team people needs
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.
next textbooks bigs
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
reading google news
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.
discourse charlatans lunatic
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
queens thinking community
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.
fighting people politics
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
war drinking mean
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.
policy has-beens
IAR is policy, always has been.
past people different
I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby...
lasts wikileaks information
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
guy enlightenment kind
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
reality thinking
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.