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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I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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We are talking to several agents and publishers about what they would be interested in.
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We delete things that are not good. They're taken down for good reasons.
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
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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.
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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.