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Jimmy Wales Quotes

born 1966 United Kingdom

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 8, 1966) is a British-American Internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer who is most famous as one of the founders of Wikipedia, an international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Also known as: Jimbo Wales, Jimmy Donal Wales, Wales, Jimbo, Wales, Jimmy, Jimbo

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My birthday wish for Wikipedia is: Let's go forward and see what we can do next.

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.

Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. … [O]ne can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.

EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

Should there be competing articles, so that you would have the Catholic article on abortion, the evangelical Christian version, and the Planned Parenthood version?

We are a passionate community of volunteers who are trying to create a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

I don't see any particular problem with that.

It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.

The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.

Quite frankly, several of the people who contributed to the article should be banned from coming near a keyboard until they have learned to engage in proper encyclopedia writing.

I don't like Wikipe-tan and never have.

I am astonished at the ethical blindness of Bell Pottinger's reaction. That their strongest true response is they didn't break the law tells a lot about their view of the world, I'm afraid.

I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

I support freedom of expression. A lot of people I disagree with also support freedom of expression. If that's controversial, then someone will have to explain to me why.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jimmy Wales (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.