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
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What we're hopeful to see is that by slowing that down to 1,500 a day from several thousand, the people who are monitoring this will have more ability to improve the quality. In many cases the types of things we see going on are impulse vandalism.
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The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
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We are talking to several agents and publishers about what they would be interested in.
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I was very pleased, just to see that (the study) was reasonably favorable. I think it provides, for us, a great counterpoint to the press coverage we've gotten recently, because it puts the focus on the broader quality and not just one article.
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Most of the prominent contributors are not anonymous. We are an actual community in the sense that we know each other and have fun working together.
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You don't delete it. If they wanted to put in their side of things, that would seem ethically relevant, rather than just omitting it.
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We're very pleased with the results and we're hoping it will focus people's attention on the overall level of our work, which is pretty good.
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I joke a lot that (choosing to be a nonprofit) was either the best thing or the worst thing I've ever done. But I think that the site wouldn't have been successful with ads. People might not be so quick to contribute.
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The bigger it gets and the more people stumble across it, the more people are interested in volunteering.
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The beauty of a forum like this is free speech. But we also promote a neutral point of view.
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That's a big error to assume that there's any tension between the two, that it's experts vs. community. There are experts in the community.
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It's a mass collaboration to build all kinds of things. It's becoming a new model for doing things on the Internet.
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We have to continually evaluate whether our controls are enough.