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“If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.” quote by Jimmy Wales — Download Open image

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

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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the…

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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.

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I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between…

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I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need…

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The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing…

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

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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

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Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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

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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

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