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
schedules get-up i-can
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
wikipedia three internet
When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.
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.
fighting people politics
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
lasts wikileaks information
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
mistake thinking different
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
i-can
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
simple
I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
smart school kids
To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.
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.
bigs tendencies approach
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
who-i-am goal quality
To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
tools networking social-network
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
grandmother night government
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.