Jimmy Wales citáty

Jimmy Donal „Jimbo“ Wales je jeden zo zakladateľov Wikipédie, wiki nadšenec a internetový podnikateľ.

Wales vyštudoval na Auburnskej univerzite a University of Alabama. Pracoval ako obchodník s opciami a futures v Chicagu. Je obdivovateľom filozofie objektivizmu Ayn Randovej; na strednej škole prevádzkoval e-mailovú konferenciu nazvanú „Moderovaná diskusia objektivistickej filozofie“. V polovici 90. rokov založil Bomis, internetový portál zameraný na aspekty popkultúry, pomocou ktorého sa tiež predáva pôvodný tovar. Neskôr založil taktiež Wikia, wiki verziu internetového vyhľadávača, a Wikicities, voľný wiki webhosting.

Spolu s Larry Sangerom založil Wales Wikipediu, online encyklopédiu založenú na systéme wiki. Predtým spolu pracovali na dnes už nefungujúcom projekte encyklopédie Nupedia. Wales je dnes riaditeľom nadácie Wikimedia, neziskovej organizácie sídliacej v Tampe, ktorá obhospodaruje Wikipédiu a jej mladšie sesterské projekty. Podľa magazínu Time utratil Wales na založenie a prevádzku svojich wiki projektov asi 500 000 USD.

Wales sa dôrazne angažuje v záležitostiach zákonov o strelných zbraniach, zvlášť v súvislosti s ústavou USA.

Wales žije v St. Petersburgu na Floride so svojou ženou Christinou a dcérou Kirou. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. august 1966
Jimmy Wales: 48 citátov0 Páči sa

Jimmy Wales: Citáty v angličtine

“When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on.”

Jimmy Wales

As quoted in "Who knows?", The Guardian (26 October 2004)
Kontext: When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.

“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.”

Jimmy Wales

&quot;How a ragtag band created Wikipedia&quot; http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/37 - TED Talk (July 2005); this has sometimes appeared paraphrased as &quot;The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.&quot; <br class="br">Kontext: Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that&#x27;s where most people assume — but it&#x27;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.

“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.”

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales, cited by Katherine Mangu-Ward, &quot; Wikipedia and Beyond: Jimmy Wales&#x27; sprawling vision http://reason.com/archives/2007/05/30/wikipedia-and-beyond,&quot; Reason (June 2007). <br class="br">Also cited by Morton Winston and Ralph Edelbach, Society, Ethics, and Technology 4th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2012), p. 200.

“We are a passionate community of volunteers who are trying to create a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet.”

Jimmy Wales

Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, press conference, 0'20 (August 2008), asked about Google Knol
Kontext: We are a passionate community of volunteers who are trying to create a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet. So we don't often think in terms of competition. We are going to do what we do and we hope Google does wonderful things as well. … If we were approaching this as a business we would think always: Oh, how can we position ourselves on the market... We just don't do any of that stuff.

“If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.”

Jimmy Wales

As quoted in "The Encyclopedist’s Lair" in The New York Times (19 November 2007)
Kontext: 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.

“I don't see any particular problem with that.”

Jimmy Wales

Responding to http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-March/066648.html the deletion of a Wikipedia article from non-administrator view, while the article&#x27;s deletion was being reviewed by the community. (27 March 2007)

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

Jimmy Wales

Interview with Reason magazine (June 2007) http://reason.com/news/show/119689.html

“Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others. When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission efficiently.”

Jimmy Wales

Wikimedia donation page https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LandingPage&amp;country=US&amp;uselang=en&amp;utm_medium=spontaneous&amp;utm_source=fr-redir&amp;utm_campaign=spontaneous&amp;rdfrom=%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DFundraising%26redirect%3Dno.

“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 having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill … Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.”

Jimmy Wales

PRWeek (30 Jan 2007) http://www.prweek.com/us/login/required/629646 In response to suggestions Wikipedia might change policies to allow PR firms to edit the site without breaking a rule called &quot;WP:AUTO&quot;.

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

Jimmy Wales

Who knows?, The Guardian, October 26, 2004, 2007-02-09 http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1335837,00.html, (Alluding to a famous quote &quot;Laws are like sausages — it is better not to see them being made.&quot;, generally attributed to Otto von Bismarck.)

“Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.”

Jimmy Wales

Berkman Center (May 15, 2008) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html

“Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.”

Jimmy Wales

Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006, published in &quot;The wisdom of one&quot; (25 April 2007) http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/the-wisdom-of-one/2007/04/24/1177180647120.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

“Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.”

Jimmy Wales

Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046440.html - Email to WikiEN-l, Tue May 16 20:30:15 UTC 2006 <br class="br">About falseness

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

Jimmy Wales

It isn&#x27;t. <br class="br">Boingboing.net, Jimmy Wales tells &quot;energy workers&quot; that Wikipedia won&#x27;t publish woo, &quot;the work of lunatic charlatans isn&#x27;t the equivalent of &#x27;true scientific discourse&#x27;&quot; http://boingboing.net/2014/03/26/jimmy-wales-tells-energy-wor.html

“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, because whatever they are here for, it is not to help build an encyclopedia.”

Jimmy Wales

Comment about &quot;drama mongers&quot; on the Wikipedia Administrator&#x27;s noticeboard, (23 November 2007) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive330&amp;diff=prev&amp;oldid=173346013

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

Jimmy Wales

Wales to Computerworld, &quot;Wikipedia founder gazes into site&#x27;s future&quot; (18 August 2006) http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/E33CA972AD48588CCC2571C7001C3649?OpenDocument, based on an earlier interview at Wikimania

“I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.”

Jimmy Wales

On controversy regarding fraudulent claims of credentials by the Wikipedian Essjay, in an e-mail to editors of The New Yorker, as quoted in The New York Times (5 March 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/technology/05wikipedia.html?ex=1330750800&amp;en=bce61db72670b609&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss

“Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information”

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales. Keynote speech, Wikimania, August 2006. May 19, 2006
About falseness

“It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.”

Jimmy Wales

Wales to Computerworld, &quot;Wikipedia founder gazes into site&#x27;s future&quot; (18 August 2006) http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/E33CA972AD48588CCC2571C7001C3649?OpenDocument, based on an earlier interview at Wikimania

“Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.”

Jimmy Wales

Zdroj: The Encyclopedist’s Lair, The New York Times, November 18, 2007, 2007-11-19 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-domains-t.html?ex=1196139600&amp;en=25f7b166ceba3519&amp;ei=5070&amp;emc=eta1,

“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.”

Jimmy Wales

About Wikia Search, in an interview with Susan Kuchinskas in iMediaConnection, March 26, 2009 http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/22475.asp (only days before Wales would shut down Wikia Search and lay off two developers)

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