Jimmy Wales Quotes (29 Quotes)

Collaborative usage of the internet is rising.

We delete things that are not good. They're taken down for good reasons.

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.

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

If they are just adding factual information, that'd be fine. But it's very hard to be neutral if you're political and supporting one candidate.

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.

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are.

The idea that we are going to tighten our editorial 'rules' is completely not correct (and) the articles would not be frozen in perpetuity.

No, we don't pay for publicity, never have and most likely never will it hasn't been necessary, and I don't see that it will be necessary.

The beauty of a forum like this is free speech. But we also promote a neutral point of view.

What we're hopeful to see is that by slowing that down to 1,500 a day from several thousand, the people who are monitoring this will have more ability to improve the quality. In many cases the types of things we see going on are impulse vandalism.

The purpose is really contained in the word 'freely licensed,' which is to make available to anyone in the world, in any language, a curriculum that they can copy, redistribute and modify, for whatever purpose they may have, for free,

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

It's a mass collaboration to build all kinds of things. It's becoming a new model for doing things on the Internet.

Your user ID is the basis for your reputation. If you are doing good work, you will gain trust. If you do bad work it will get reverted. We don't care about your personal name or what your previous credentials are.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

We're very pleased with the results and we're hoping it will focus people's attention on the overall level of our work, which is pretty good.

That's a big error to assume that there's any tension between the two, that it's experts vs. community. There are experts in the community.

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

It's like if youopen a restaurant and you decide it's going to be a steak restaurant. As a steak restaurant, the customers are going to have knives. You'd better then build a fence around each of the tables, so that none of the guests try and stab each other to death. Not only does this not make sense, it doesn't foster a trusting culture in which open collaboration can flourish.

We've had a lot of interest from investors, and it was really a matter of sorting through the investors to be sure that people who are investing were people who were believers in our mission.

I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games.

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.

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.

For all his notoriety in global tech circles, Wales is all but invisible in Florida. Due to lack of interest, an organizer once had to cancel an event in St. Petersburg where Wales was to speak. Like the great artists Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhoff, ... I'm only appreciated overseas.

We have constant problems where we have people who are trying to repeatedly abuse our sites.

People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it. It's in poor taste...People have a lot of information about themselves but staying objective is difficult. That's the trade-off in editing entries about yourself...If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Most of the prominent contributors are not anonymous. We are an actual community in the sense that we know each other and have fun working together.