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'''[[w:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales]]''' (born [[7 August]] [[1966]]) is a U.S. Internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer who is most famous as one of the founders of [[Wikipedia]], an international collaborative [[w:Free content|free content]] [[encyclopedia]] on the [[Internet]], and the [[m:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]].
'''[[w:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales]]''' (born [[7 August]] [[1966]]) is a U.S. Internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer who is most famous as one of the founders of [[Wikipedia]], an international collaborative [[w:Free content|free content]] [[encyclopedia]] on the [[Internet]], and the [[m:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]].
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[[File:Jimmy Wales accessing Wikipedia.jpg|thumb|[[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.]]
[[File:Jimmy Wales accessing Wikipedia.jpg|thumb|[[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.]]
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[[File:Jimmy-wales-frankfurt2005-alih01.jpg|thumb|[[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. ]]
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[[File:Jimmy-wales-frankfurt2005-alih01.jpg|thumb|[[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. ]]
[[File:Jimmy Wales 2 10th wikipedia party.JPG|thumb|The real [[struggle]] is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but it's between the party of the [[thoughtful]] and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a [[monopoly]] on either of those [[qualities]].]]
[[File:Jimmy Wales 2 10th wikipedia party.JPG|thumb|The real [[struggle]] is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but it's between the party of the [[thoughtful]] and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a [[monopoly]] on either of those [[qualities]].]]
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[[File:Wikimedia Conference 2013 - board meeting 02.JPG|thumb|It turns out a lot of [[people]] don’t get it. [[Wikipedia]] is like [[rock’n’roll]]; it’s a [[cultural]] shift.]]
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[[File:Wikimedia Conference 2013 - board meeting 02.JPG|thumb|It turns out a lot of [[people]] don’t get it. [[Wikipedia]] is like [[rock’n’roll]]; it’s a [[cultural]] shift.]]
[[File:Troll school.jpg|thumb|Simply having [[rules]] does not [[change]] the things that [[people]] want to do. You have to change incentives.]]
[[File:Troll school.jpg|thumb|Simply having [[rules]] does not [[change]] the things that [[people]] want to do. You have to change incentives.]]
[[File:Hayek.jpg|thumb|[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]'s work on [[price theory]] is central to my own thinking about how to manage the [[Wikipedia]] project. … [O]ne can't [[understand]] my [[ideas]] about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.]]
[[File:Hayek.jpg|thumb|[[Friedrich Hayek|Hayek]]'s work on [[price theory]] is central to my own thinking about how to manage the [[Wikipedia]] project. … [O]ne can't [[understand]] my [[ideas]] about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.]]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive330&diff=prev&oldid=173346013 Comment about "drama mongers" on the Wikipedia Administrator's noticeboard, (23 November 2007)]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive330&diff=prev&oldid=173346013 Comment about "drama mongers" on the Wikipedia Administrator's noticeboard, (23 November 2007)]
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* We are going to change the [[w:GNU Free Documentation License|[GNU] Free Documentation License]] in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the [[w:Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License|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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* We are going to change the [[w:GNU Free Documentation License|[GNU] Free Documentation License]] in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the [[w:Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License|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.
** Announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation Board has voted to enable Wikipedia to be licensed under a [[w:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]] license. [http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/ "Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons" (30 November 2007)]
** Announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation Board has voted to enable Wikipedia to be licensed under a [[w:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]] license. [http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/ "Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons" (30 November 2007)]
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** Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, press conference, 0'20 (August 2008), asked about Google Knol
** Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, press conference, 0'20 (August 2008), asked about Google Knol
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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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* 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.
** About Wikia Search, in an interview with Susan Kuchinskas in ''iMediaConnection'', [http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/22475.asp March 26, 2009] (only days before Wales would shut down Wikia Search and lay off two developers)
** About Wikia Search, in an interview with Susan Kuchinskas in ''iMediaConnection'', [http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/22475.asp March 26, 2009] (only days before Wales would shut down Wikia Search and lay off two developers)
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:''Wales'': Our goal has always been Britannica or better quality. We don't always achieve that.
:''Wales'': Our goal has always been Britannica or better quality. We don't always achieve that.
:''Lamb'': Would you put them out of business?
:''Lamb'': Would you put them out of business?
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:''Lamb'': Another thing I read about you is that you are a follower or have been at some point a follower of [[Ayn Rand]]?
:''Lamb'': Another thing I read about you is that you are a follower or have been at some point a follower of [[Ayn Rand]]?
:''Wales'': That's right, yes.
:''Wales'': That's right, yes.
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== Quotes about Wales==
== Quotes about Wales==
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* 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.
* 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.
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**{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Adams |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title= For your information|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2113739,00.html |format= |work= |publisher=''The Observer''|id= |pages= |page= |date=[[July 1]], [[2007]]|accessdate=|language= |quote= }}