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
wikipedia three internet
When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.
girl people wikipedia
Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.
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.
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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.
wikipedia profit non-profit
Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.
controls evaluate whether
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.
bad borderline faith gets good people reasonable work
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.
blatant editing error including information objective people poor staying themselves wish
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.
abuse amazing build community needs respectful
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.
attention focus hoping level overall pleased results
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.
broader coverage focus gotten great press puts quality reasonably
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.
delete ethically rather seem side
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.
actual community fun prominent
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.