I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated abou… - Jimmy Wales

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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.

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About Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is a British-American Internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer who is most famous as one of the founders of Wikipedia, an international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Pen Names: Jimbo

Birth Name: Jimmy Donal Wales

Alternative Names: Jimbo Wales • Jimmy D. Wales

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