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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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🇺🇸Andrew Lih
Science
b. 1968
"Could the pressure from mobile, and the internal tensions, tear Wikipedia apart? A world without it seems unimaginable, but consider the fate of other online communities."
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🇬🇧Jimmy Wales
Business
b. 1966
"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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"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."
— Jimmy Wales, b. 1966View →
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
— Jimmy Wales, b. 1966View →
"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."
— Jimmy Wales, b. 1966View →
"Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education."
— Jimmy Wales, b. 1966View →
"I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things."
— Jimmy Wales, b. 1966View →