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Jimmy Wales

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Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.


— Jimmy Wales


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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.


— Jimmy Wales


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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.


— Jimmy Wales


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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.


— Jimmy Wales


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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.


— Jimmy Wales


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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.


— Jimmy Wales


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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.


— Jimmy Wales


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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.


— Jimmy Wales


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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.


— Jimmy Wales


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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.


— Jimmy Wales


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About Jimmy Wales

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Did you know about Jimmy Wales?

Wales was quoted by The Boston Globe as calling Sanger’s claim "preposterous" in February 2006 and called "the whole debate silly" in an April 2009 interview. Writer Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that in his edits to the page Wales had removed. " Sanger worked on and promoted both the Nupedia and Wikipedia projects until Bomis discontinued funding for his position in February 2002; Sanger resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and as "chief organizer" of Wikipedia on March 1 of that year.

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (pron. The company would provide the initial funding for the peer-reviewed free encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–03) and its successor Wikipedia. In 1996 he and two partners founded Bomis a male-oriented web portal featuring entertainment and adult content.

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