Jimmy Wales Quotes

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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.

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. )

education was always a passion in my household ... you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life.

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.

I predict that https://gov.uk/home-education is going to be dramatically more popular this coming year.

[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.

You cannot write a good Wikipedia article about a small town if there is no longer news about this small town. This [trend] will impact the quality of Wikipedia long-term.

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

I joke that I started as a kid revising the encyclopedia by stickering the one my mother bought.

A lot of them, they really cost more than they're worth, and they should be encouraged to leave, and not in a bad way. I mean one of the things that I've always believed is letting people walk away with dignity. We don't have to shame them and scream at them and make them leave and then they're sad and annoyed and then they make sock puppets and then they come back and harass us for years.

I've reason to believe

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

In case anyone is wondering I strongly support the development and widespread adoption of a covid-19 vaccine and will take it as soon as it is widely available... I don't think I should be in the first wave to take it as that should be people more vulnerable or more likely to be spreaders...

President's power does not extend to threatening or shutting down social media platforms. But we should fear this in every country. Worst case scenario is that platforms don't have courage to tell Trump to go away, that they begin to adapt policies to his whims because he is a lunatic,