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
believers interest investing investors matter people sure
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.
controls evaluate whether
We have to continually evaluate whether our controls are enough.
business internet-access world
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
freedom expression speech
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
goal effort community
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.
comedian needs stills
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
real struggle party
The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.
rights ideas people
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
world sitting computer
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
circles important together
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
support request
EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
rocks people rock-n-roll
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.
views people different
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
beer giving goal
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.