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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That's a big error to assume that there's any tension between the two, that it's experts vs. community. There are experts in the community.
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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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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
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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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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.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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.