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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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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We are talking to several agents and publishers about what they would be interested in.
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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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I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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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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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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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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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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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,