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I'm a big advocate of freedom:...

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

My view is that good community...

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.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

What can we put into the hands...

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

I think it's a mistake to trea...

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

I have zero interest in sports...

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

I think that argument is compl...

I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill ... Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

Simply having rules does not c...

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

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

Frankly, and let me be blunt, ...

Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

It has become more important t...

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

To me the key thing is getting...

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.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

The real struggle is not betwe...

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

The more time I spent on the s...

The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

What we won't do is pretend th...

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

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

I'm on it pretty much all the ...

I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

Freely licensed textbooks are ...

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

I have my team focused on the ...

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.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

I don't really agree that most...

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [...] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

Given enough time humans will ...

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

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

Greatest misconception about W...

Greatest misconception about 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.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

Wikipedia is first and foremos...

Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.

Jimmy Donal Wales 110 quotes

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