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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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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.