Jimmy Wales
American-British internet entrepreneur; co-founder of Wikipedia (2001) and of Fandom, and author of The Seven Rules of Trust (2025).
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Their wordsThese, and people like them, are my heroes. They are the people of true courage. I’m a very fortunate man in life, and I’m proud to stand up for freedom of speech and the right to access to knowledge in every circumstance that I can. But my courage, if it is courage, is nothing compared to the courage of those who are really risking life and limb to speak truth to power.
- 5 years earlier
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Their wordsFirst, I don’t agree with people who seem to be contrasting “wanting to make money” with “being principled”. I rather think that both are possible. I like making money, and I think there are honorable ways to do it. I think we in the free culture movement should strongly embrace companies who are doing it.
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Their wordsMy position on ads in Wikipedia was and is the same as it has ever been. The decision needs to come from the community, and not from me. I am personally opposed to advertising in Wikipedia, but we need to make the decision to turn down ads in a responsible and serious manner.
↗Advertising and Wikipediajimmywales.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsThe facts are that protection as a policy has existed for years. Semi-protection was devised as a softer, more open approach. Rather than full protection, which means that no one can edit, we now increasingly use semi-protection, which allows people to continue to edit the article.
- 20 months earlier
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Their wordsI believe this argument is seriously mistaken, and not on merely practical grounds, but on grounds of principle. Free knowledge requires free software. It is a conceptual error to think about our mission as being somehow separate from that.
↗Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formatsjimmywales.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFinally, we should never forget as a community that we are the vanguard of a knowledge revolution that will transform the world. We are the leading edge innovators and leaders of what is becoming a global movement to free knowledge from proprietary constraints. 100 years from now, the idea of a proprietary textbook or encyclopedia will sound as quaint and remote as we now think of the use of leeches in medical science.
↗Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formatsjimmywales.com 2nd of 2 in this piece