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Jimmy Wales Biography

Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia, and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.

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I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

Approach, Kind, Reading, Spent, Things

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

Party, Real, Struggle

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

Information, Lasts, Send, Thing, Wikileaks

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Approach, Bigs, Closed, Easily, Tendencies

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

Million, Month, Page, People, Views, Wikipedia

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

Google, Ifs, Exist

There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

People, Rude, Would Be, Face, Plenty

I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.

Hobbies, Hobby, Past, People, Say

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

Concept, Original, Persons, Provide, Single Person, World

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

Bag, Bags, Mixed, People, Public, Voice

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

College, International, Sports, Zero

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Assume, Fighting, Fights, People, Politics, Right

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. )

Become, Different, Important, Research, Wales, World

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

Charlatans, Discourse, Lunatic, True, Work

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.

Community, Minorities, People, Smallest, Takes

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Enlightenment, Guy, Kind

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

Get Up, I Can, Regular, Schedule, Schedules, Whenever

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

Big, Expression, Freedom, Speech

In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.

Advice, Giving, Matter, People, Right

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

Mistake, Thinking, Different, Fundamentally, Same

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