Jimmy Wales Quotes
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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We are going to change the GNU Free Documentation License in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. And so this is not, as some people speculated on Facebook my 50th birthday party. This is a party to celebrate the liberation of Wikipedia.
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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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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.
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I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.
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Real people are involved, and they can be hurt by your words. We are not tabloid journalism, we are an encyclopedia.
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I am really accessible.
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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
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Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.
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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.
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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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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.
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A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
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We come from geek culture, we come from the free software movement, we have a lot of technologists involved. If we had done the same sort of comparison on poets or artists, I think that we would not have fared nearly as well.
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I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information
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It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.