Jimmy Wales Quotes
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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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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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Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
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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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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
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I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.
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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 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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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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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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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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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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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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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 are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?