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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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
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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'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 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 are talking to several agents and publishers about what they would be interested in.
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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,
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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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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.