Frasi di Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal Wales, detto Jimbo , è un imprenditore statunitense, cofondatore del progetto Wikipedia. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Agosto 1966
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“È un obiettivo molto semplice e puro. È qualcosa di buono per il mondo. Non staremo ancora qui a lungo.”

da Alabamian is brain behind Wikipedia, Birmingam News

“Come i grandi artisti Jerry Lewis e David Hasselhoff. Sono apprezzato solo oltre oceano.”

In merito ad una manifestazione cancellata a St. Petersburg

“[Wikipedia è] Come una salsiccia: è possibile che ti piaccia il gusto, ma non devi necessariamente sapere come è fatta.”

da Who knows? http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1335837,00.html, The Guardian, 26 ottobre 2004

Jimmy Wales: Frasi in inglese

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

As quoted in "Who knows?", The Guardian (26 October 2004)
Contesto: 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.”

"How a ragtag band created Wikipedia" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/37 - TED Talk (July 2005); this has sometimes appeared paraphrased as "The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks."
Contesto: Most people understand the need for neutrality. 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.

“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, cited by Katherine Mangu-Ward, " Wikipedia and Beyond: Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision http://reason.com/archives/2007/05/30/wikipedia-and-beyond," Reason (June 2007).
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.”

Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, press conference, 0'20 (August 2008), asked about Google Knol
Contesto: 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.”

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

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'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.”

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

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

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 "Laws are like sausages — it is better not to see them being made.", 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.”

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.”

Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006, published in "The wisdom of one" (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.”

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
About falseness

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

It isn't.
Boingboing.net, Jimmy Wales tells "energy workers" that Wikipedia won't publish woo, "the work of lunatic charlatans isn't the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'" 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.”

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

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

Wales to Computerworld, "Wikipedia founder gazes into site's future" (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.”

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&en=bce61db72670b609&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

“Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information”

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.”

Wales to Computerworld, "Wikipedia founder gazes into site's future" (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.”

Origine: 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&en=25f7b166ceba3519&ei=5070&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.”

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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