Jimmy Wales Quotes
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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.
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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.
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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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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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I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
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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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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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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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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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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 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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
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I am really accessible.
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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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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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Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information