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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
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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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I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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 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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
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I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
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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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We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information
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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 don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
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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 tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
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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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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.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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