The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last
by Jimmy Wales · 28 Oct 2025 · 216pp · 60,419 words
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, London. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Wales, Jimmy, author Title: The seven rules of trust: a blueprint of building things that last / Jimmy Wales, with Dan Gardner. Description: First edition. | New York, NY: Crown Currency, [2025] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2025012364 (print) | LCCN 2025012365 (ebook) | ISBN
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, 91, 114, 115 journalists, response to Wikipedia, 6–7 K Kalanick, Travis, 32–33 Kalven Report, 127 Keilana Effect, 111–12 kindergarten ethics, 102 Kira (Jimmy Wales’s daughter), 14–16, 25 L Lakshmanan, Sundar, 84–87 Lao Tzu, 198 Leslie, Ian, 102–4 Lewis, William, 117–18 Linux, 96–97 logic
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statement, 49–50 volunteers (See Wikipedians) Wikipedia articles accuracy studies, 159–61 bias in, 108–10 Criticism of Wikipedia, 152 editorial banners, 148–50 on Jimmy Wales, 152–53 medical, 130–31 neutral point of view, 136–37 talk page, 82–83, 149–50 Wikipedia family, 13 Wikipedians (volunteer editors) accuracy managed
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E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z About the Authors jimmy wales is an Internet entrepreneur who is best known as the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
embodied the democratizing promise of the internet. “What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them?” asked its founder, Jimmy Wales. “For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge—the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.” Wales himself became a celebrity, beloved across
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TEXT “What can we put”: Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, “Mr. Know-It-All,” W, August 31, 2008, https://www.wmagazine.com/story/jimmy-wales. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT beloved across: Amy Chozick, “Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire,” New York Times, June 27, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/magazine
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/jimmy-wales-is-not-an-internet-billionaire.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “knowledge is power”: Lipsky-Karasz, “Mr. Know-It-All.” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer · 13 Feb 2024 · 343pp · 92,693 words
?” Musk snapped back. “The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?” Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales provided an answer. “What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won,” he tweeted. “This
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, 2023, 12:27 p.m., twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657422401754259461. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “What Wikipedia did”: Jimmy Wales, Twitter post, May 13, 2023, 5:12 p.m., twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1657494022741426180. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT investigating Twitter’s privacy practices: Brian Fung, “FTC Says It’s Conducting
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
by Andrew Lih · 5 Jul 2010 · 398pp · 86,023 words
The Wikipedia REVOLUTION How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia Andrew Lih For my wife, Mei Contents Acknowledgments viii Foreword by Jimmy Wales xii Chapter 1_THE WIKI PHENOMENON 1 History 3 Chapter 2_ A NUPEDIA 13 What Is an Encyclopedia? 14 Alabama Rising 17 The Mother of
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understanding of the community. The book would not have been possible without extensive interviews with the principal enablers of Wikipedia: Ward Cunningham, Larry Sanger, and Jimmy Wales. Michael Davis, Tim Shell, Terry Foote. Thanks to Wikimedia Foun- Ac know ledg ments_x dation board members Florence Devouard, Angela Beesley, and Michael Snow
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also my hero. To the reader, this book is just a beginning. The story continues to be written at http://www.wikipediarevolution.com/. Foreword by Jimmy Wales Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing
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world in which every single person on the planetis given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” —Jimmy Wales In August 2005, at a modest youth hostel in Frankfurt, Germany, hundreds of writers, students, computer hackers, and ordinary Internet users from around the world
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assemble the “sum of all human knowledge,” as a collaborative endeavor from many individuals, was to have neutrality as the core editorial policy. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales refers to having a “neutral point of view” (NPOV) as the community’s only “nonnegotiable” policy, which “attempts to present ideas and facts in such
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product in cyberspace, but it was having implications in physical “meetspace.” This spawned real-life get-togethers. Meet-ups were planned, and starting in 2004, Jimmy Wales, like a prophet visiting his flock, went out to meet as many of the Wikipedians as he could. This fellow from a modest background in
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after its launch, Wikipedia was rising quickly, but it was still officially an experimental project of the for-profit company Bomis .com. When then-CEO Jimmy Wales mused on the Wikipedia email list whether to put advertisements on Wikipedia’s pages to generate revenue, it hit the community like a shock wave
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Alabama, a U.S. state known more for civil rights struggle than for being a spawning ground for great Internet projects. Huntsville, Alabama, is where Jimmy Wales hailed from, and the city’s growth in the 1960s would have a profound effect on his outlook. Jimmy’s parents, Doris and Jimmy Sr
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. The so-called Rocket City was established in what seemed like an overnight development. It was in the midst of the town’s upsurge that Jimmy Wales was born. Life in town with his brother and sister was exciting, as the innovative energy of the space program was palpable. Rocket tests could
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“Every artist was first an amateur.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “History is too serious to be left to historians.” —Ian Macleod After both Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales found out about WikiWikiWeb software and its use for collaboration, both were keen on it helping kick-start Nupedia’s lackluster pace. Nupedia was simply
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the title “Let’s make a wiki”: No, this is not an indecent proposal. It’s an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. Jimmy Wales thinks that many people might find the idea objec-tionable, but I think not. . . . What it means is a VERY open, VERY publicly-editable series
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given time. It would be like seeing all the editor’s marks, pencil scratches, and Post-it notes all over a finished work. Tim Shell, Jimmy Wales’s original Bomis partner, who was active in the early days of Wikipedia, pointed this out on the mailing list within weeks of the project
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modify content. However, with that license Bomis, Inc., was still the legal copyright holder. In January 2001, after some exchange of emails with Richard Stallman, Jimmy Wales was convinced to move to the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This was similar to Stallman’s GNU General Public License, but it applied to
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the “user” namespace, a page for describing each registered user in Wikipedia. For example, [[User:Jimbo]] was dedicated as a sort of home page allowing Jimmy Wales to post personal details. Similarly, [[User talk:Jimbo]] was a page that allowed other users to engage in discussion with Jimbo. The “main community” namespace
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least that’s how the Francophones see it. “In French Wikipedia they came up with a fantastic phrase, they call it the piranha effect,” says Jimmy Wales. “You start with a little tiny article and it‘s not quite good enough so people are picking at it and sort of a feeding
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a site that encouraged anyone to edit any page at any time. “Generally we find most people out there on the Internet are good,” says Jimmy Wales. “It’s one of the wonderful humanitarian discoveries in Wikipedia, that most people only want to help us and build this free nonprofit, charitable resource
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from the database itself for legal reasons. Understandably, oversight was something only a very elite set of trusted users had. Despite the important-sounding title, Jimmy Wales was quick not to put too much weight behind the “administrator” role, which was also nicknamed “sysop” from the old days of computer bulletin boards
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interpreted in isolation from one another, and editors should familiarize themselves with all three.41 NPOV is the only nonnegotiable policy in Wikipedia, according to Jimmy Wales. It’s what makes people work together: converging while collaborating. Verifiability is about “whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia has
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should go. What to Include One of the most heated perennial debates in Wikipedia is the question: Which articles should be included in Wikipedia? When Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger started the project, they wanted it to be an encyclopedia in the tradition of the great print encyclopedias in history—Diderot’s
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period. Violating this would allow an individual administrator to block the problem user for twenty-four hours on sight. The proposal had the backing of Jimmy Wales himself: I am personally endorsing and promoting this proposal, because I think that revert warring has become an absurd drain on us, and it has
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outlier to the community of global volunteers. A main motivation of global Wikipedians at Wikimania was to meet one another, and particularly the legendary founder Jimmy Wales they’d heard so much about. When Takashi Ota, one of the two Japanese Wikipedians who attended, and who edited anonymously, was told he must
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meet Jimmy Wales, he famously quipped, “Who’s Jimmy Wales?” The Japanese language is one of the tougher languages in the world to learn because it effectively has three different writing systems, used
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Foundation, attended the Digital World Africa 2006 Conference in Abuja, Nigeria, to help evangelize the role of Wikimedia projects on the continent.60 In 2007, Jimmy Wales started an initiative to bring Wikipedia-based education to South Africa in conjunction with another free culture NGO, iCommons: Wikipedias in the South African languages
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months later that the shock came. In early 2007, Essjay accepted a job with Wikia, the for-profit company formed by Wikimedia Foundation board members Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Facing the reality of having to work in person with colleagues, Essjay came clean and said he was in fact not a
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company affiliated with Wikipedia—as a “community manager”; he continues to hold his Wikipedia positions. He did not answer a message we sent to him; Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikia and of Wikipedia, said of Essjay’s invented persona, “I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really
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Stephen J. Dubner brought up his concern. “This is hardly a felony, but it does make you wonder about what else happens at Wikipedia that Jimmy Wales doesn’t have a problem with,” he wrote. Wikipedians, usually quick to circle the wagons to protect their own from 198_The_Wikipedia_Revolution media
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-world demands on it and some real challenges to be faced going forward. The Wikimedia Foundation has handled the oversight of finances and operations since Jimmy Wales founded it in June 2003. The Board of Trustees, which started as three appointees and two members elected from the community, now has the majority
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as the one for Socrates. Whether Spears should be shorter or Socrates longer is an exercise left to the reader. At the end of 2006, Jimmy Wales proposed that the community focus on quality versus quantity, that Wikipedia was sufficiently high-profile that embarrassing episodes concerning its reliability and credibility were taking
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place while the organization reverts to running on relationships. The formation of the Arbitration Committee was an example of this reliance on institutional procedure, as Jimmy Wales no longer had time to personally sort things out himself as benevolent dictator. 224_Afterword Adminship The problem of expanded policy and procedures dominating the
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. 79. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_notice board/Incidents& diff=47360865& oldid=47360559. 80. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales_asks _Wikipedian_to_resign_ %22his_po sitions_of_trust %22_over_nonexistent_degrees. 81. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-05
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
online. 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov in chess. 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin launch Google. 1999 Ev Williams launches Blogger. 2001 Jimmy Wales, with Larry Sanger, launches Wikipedia. 2011 IBM’s computer Watson wins Jeopardy! INTRODUCTION HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE The computer and the Internet are
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’t love me?” Torvalds was able to master the digital-age art of being an accepted leader of a massive, decentralized, nonhierarchical collaboration, something that Jimmy Wales at Wikipedia was doing at around the same time. The first rule for such a situation is to make decisions like an engineer, based on
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was a tool that served this need. Connecting into a community is one of the basic desires that drive the digital world.”79 WARD CUNNINGHAM, JIMMY WALES, AND WIKIS When he launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee intended it to be used as a collaboration tool, which is why he
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he named his Web pages and the software that ran them WikiWikiWeb, wiki for short.82 Dan Bricklin (1951– ) and Ev Williams (1972– ) in 2001. Jimmy Wales (1966– ). Sergey Brin (1973– ) and Larry Page (1973– ). In his original version, the syntax Cunningham used for creating links in a text was to smash
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engineers until January 2001, when it was adopted by a struggling Internet entrepreneur who was trying, without much success, to build a free, online encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales was born in 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama, a town of rednecks and rocket scientists. Six years earlier, in the wake of Sputnik, President Eisenhower had
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view—call it the “bumblebee at the right time” theory—on the collaborative way that Wikipedia was created. “Some folks, aiming to criticize or belittle Jimmy Wales, have taken to calling me one of the founders of Wikipedia, or even ‘the true founder,’ ” he said. “I suggested the idea, but I was
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create in common is more meaningful than would be the same Wikipedia handed to us on a platter. Peer production allows people to be engaged. Jimmy Wales often repeated a simple, inspiring mission for Wikipedia: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the
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McQueeney, Gordon Moore, John Negroponte, Larry Page, Howard Rheingold, Larry Roberts, Arthur Rock, Virginia Rometty, Ben Rosen, Steve Russell, Eric Schmidt, Bob Taylor, Paul Terrell, Jimmy Wales, Evan Williams, and Steve Wozniak. I’m also grateful to people who gave useful advice along the way, including Ken Auletta, Larry Cohen, David Derbes
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-Lee interview, Riptide Project, Schornstein Center, Harvard, 2013. 84. Kelly Kazek, “Wikipedia Founder, Huntsville Native Jimmy Wales, Finds Fame Really Cool,” News Courier (Athens, AL), Aug. 12, 2006. 85. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales. 86. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales; Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution, 585. 87. Marshall Poe, “The Hive,” Atlantic, Sept. 2006. 88
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. Jimmy Wales interview, conducted by Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, Sept. 25, 2005. 89. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales; Eric Raymond, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” first
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_Memoir. 92. Larry Sanger, “Become an Editor or Peer Reviewer!” Nupedia, http://archive.is/IWDNq. 93. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales; Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution, 960. 94. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales. 95. Larry Sanger, “Origins of Wikipedia,” Sanger user page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger/Origins_of_Wikipedia
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Conversation at the Taco Stand,” Kovitz user page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BenKovitz. 97. Jimmy Wales, “Re: Sanger’s Memoirs” thread, Apr. 2005, http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-April/021463.html. 98. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, “Re: Sanger’s Memoirs” thread, Apr. 2005, http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail
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” and its talk page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia, along with Jimmy Wales edit changes to the article, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=next&oldid=29849184; Talk: Bomis, revisions made by Jimmy Wales, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=11139857. 99. Kovitz, “The Conversation at
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: The Power of Organizing without Organizations (Penguin, 2008) and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (Penguin, 2010). 103. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales. 104. Larry Sanger, “Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism,” Dec. 31, 2004, www.LarrySanger.org. 105. Wikipedia press release, Jan. 15, 2002, http://en
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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/January_2002. 106. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales. 107. Shirky, “Wikipedia—An Unplanned Miracle.” 108. Yochai Benkler, “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm,” Yale Law Journal (2002), http
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_a_dog. 110. Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (Yale, 2008), 147. 111. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales. 112. Author’s interview with Jimmy Wales. 113. John Battelle, The Search (Portfolio, 2005; locations refer to the Kindle edition), 894. 114. Battelle, The Search, 945; author’s visit
Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
by Dariusz Jemielniak · 13 May 2014 · 312pp · 93,504 words
. His experience on Wikipedia was wide enough to help him get hired by Wikia (a commercial company offering wiki-based hosting solutions, also created by Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia) in January 2007. Soon after, the scandal broke: Daniel Brandt, a 1 1 0 T r u s t i n
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ten members: • Three seats elected directly by the Wikimedia community • Two seats selected by the Wikimedia chapters • One board-appointed “founder’s seat” (reserved for Jimmy Wales) • Four board-appointed “specific-expertise” seats Because of this composition, as well as the scope of power it holds, the board is relatively neutral to
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. He was the editor in chief of both Nupedia and Wikipedia and is also credited with the idea of using wiki software. But “it was Jimmy Wales who 1 5 6 L e a d e r s h i p T r a n s f o r m e d
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his formal authority, to help transition to a more community run system. —Ned Scott 07:40, 28 June 2008 (UTC). ([[Wiki pedia_talk:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales]]) Additionally, discussions about Wales being a steward kept arising. In February 2009, when the time for steward confirmations came, a confirmation for Wales was started
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model of the movement that limits the influence of the Wikimedia Foundation in spite of its current major role. Finally, I review the evolution of Jimmy Wales’s leadership on Wikipedia and explain how open-collaboration communities require congruence between an organizational leadership model (authoritative or egalitarian) and the exercise of leadership
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many are clearly ideology driven. This is one of the reasons why the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act protests, orchestrated by Jimmy Wales and described in Chapter 7, gained so much momentum. In this sense, the Wikimedia movement taps into the alternative-left critique of the capitalist system
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. See also Anon. IRC Internet Relay Chat. ITHAWO I thought he already was one. Used about people listed in “admin” requests. Janitor See Admin. Jimbo Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia. Kill / Kill with fire / Kill with a stick Dysphemisms for “deleting” a page, expressing some disgust for the existence of the
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open source. London: Pluto Press. Berstein, J. (2011, February 3). Wikipedia’s benevolent dictator. New Statesman. Retrieved from http://www.newstatesman.com/digital/2011/01/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-site Beschastnikh, I., Kriplean, T., & McDonald, D. W. (2008). Wikipedian self-governance in action: Motivating the policy lens. In E. Adar, M. Hurst, T
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. (2013, August 17). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved August 22, 2013, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual _content/Archive_4 Commons:Deletion requests/file:Jimmy Wales by Pricasso.jpg. (2013, August 20). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved August 22, 2013, from http://commons.wikimedia .org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File
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:Jimmy_Wales_by_Pricasso.jpg 2 4 6 R e f e r e n c e s Community Logo/Request for consultation. (2013, October 29). Wikimedia.
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superstar. Gizmodo. Retrieved from http://gizmodo.com/5903743/seven -years-one-million-edits-zero-dollars-wikipedias-flat-broke-superstar-editor Hough, A. (2012, March 11). Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia chief to advise Whitehall on policy. The Telegraph. Retrieved 2012 from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipe dia/9137339
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/Jimmy-Wales-Wikipedia-chief-to-advise-Whitehall-on-policy.html Hsieh, H. F., & Shannon, S. E. (2005). Three approaches to qualitative content analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 15(
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). Ex-Wikipedia staffer harpoons Wales over expenses. The Register. Retrieved from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/05/jimmy_wales _and_danny_wool/ Metz, C. (2008b, March 6). Why you should care that Jimmy Wales ignores reality. The Register. Retrieved from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/06/a_model_wiki pedian
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, June 25). How Wikimedia Commons became a massive amateur porn hub. The Daily Dot. Retrieved from http://www.dailydot.com/technology/wikime dia-commons-photos-jimmy-wales-broken/ Müller-Birn, C., Dobusch, L., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2013). Work-to-rule: The emergence of algorithmic governance in Wikipedia. In C&T ’13: Proceedings
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_Gardner/Narrowing_focus Vaknin, S. (2010, May). The Wikipedia cult [Interview by Daniel Tynan]. Global Politician. Retrieved from http://www.globalpolitician.com/26423-wikipedia-cult -jimmy-wales Van Maanen, J. (1988/2011). Tales of the field: On writing ethnography (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Van Rossum, G. (2008, July 31
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, 102 Commons, Wikimedia, 92; and child pornography incident, 167–171; culture of, 177; deleted images on, 234n9; direct upload of pictures to, 191; relationship with Jimmy Wales, 177, 235n13 common sense, 96 communication transparency, 92 community ambassadors, 137 community-building role of conflict, 82 community logo trademarking, 139 community of Wikipedia, 4
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
by Lawrence Lessig · 2 Jan 2009
they were part of a community, the rules had to be rules anyone could live by. Thus was born the “ignore all rules” rule, which Jimmy Wales explained to me as follows: “Ignore all rules” . . . is not an invitation to chaos. It is really more an idea of saying, “Look, whatever rules
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i-xxiv 001-328 r4nk.indd 157 8/12/08 1:55:27 AM REMI X 158 ingly well—surprising even for Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales. As he explained to me: As people get experienced using Wikipedia and they’re reading it a lot, they begin to have this intuition that
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The rest is cleaning up those additions. And even here, more of the work is done by a relatively small number of users. According to Jimmy Wales, 50 percent of all edits are done by 0.7 percent of users—meaning just about 524 users within his sample. The most active 2
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if it added advertising to its site. Such is the opportunity of top ten Internet portals. Wikia, another wiki site, was launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Its aim is not to build an encyclopedia. Rather, its aim is to be a “platform for developing and hosting communitybased wikis. Specifically, Wikia enables
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that fall outside the scope of an encyclopedia. . . . Wikia is committed to openness, inviting anyone to contribute web content.”34 The site is enjoying the Jimmy Wales magic. With eight hundred thousand articles, it is actually growing faster than Wikipedia was at a comparable period.35 The site is already a treasury
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, Don Joyce, Brewster Kahle, Heather Lawver, Declan McCullagh, Dave Marglin, Craig Newmark, Silvia Ochoa, Tim O’Reilly, Philip Rosedale, Mark Shuttleworth, Johan Söderberg, Victor Stone, Jimmy Wales, Jerry Yang, and Robert Young. I have learned a great deal from all of them, and I hope I have fairly evinced some of that
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#69 (last visited July 31, 2007). 47. Daniel H. Pink, “The Book Stops Here,” Wired, March 2005, available at link #70. 48. All quotes from Jimmy Wales taken from an in-person interview conducted May 4, 2007. 49. Seth Anthony, “Contribution Patterns Among Active Wikipedians: Finding and Keeping Content Creators,” Wikimania Proceedings
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April 14, 2008). 33. “Points and Levels,” Yahoo! Answers Point System, available at link #106 (last visited August 20, 2007). 34. “Bessemer Venture Partners Funds Jimmy Wales’ Startup Wikia,” Wikia.com, available at link #107 (last visited July 31, 2007). 35. Michael Arrington, “Wikia Gaming Launches with 250,000 Articles,” TechCrunch, available
The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo Rking
by Mark Bauerlein · 7 Sep 2011 · 407pp · 103,501 words
: web 2.0 five years on web 2.0: the second generation of the internet has arrived and it’s worse than ... wikipedia and beyond: jimmy wales’s sprawling vision judgment: of molly’s gaze and taylor’s watch - why more is less in a ... a dream come true the end of
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great seduction of citizen media, democratized content and authentic online communities. And weblogs, course. Millions and millions of blogs. <Katherine Mangu-Ward> wikipedia and beyond: jimmy wales’s sprawling vision Originally published in Reason magazine (June 2007). KATHERINE MANGU-WARD is a senior editor at Reason magazine. Previously, Mangu-Ward worked as
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has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, New York Timesonline, and numerous other publications. She blogs at reason.com. JIMMY WALES, the founder of Wikipedia, lives in a house fit for a grandmother. The progenitor and public face of one of the ten most popular websites
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worries that Wales will eventually find himself in legal trouble unless he takes more action to control what appears on the site: “I said to Jimmy Wales, ‘You’re going to offend enough members of Congress that you’re going to get more regulation.’ I don’t want more regulation of the
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anti-elitist. He likes elites, he says; they just have to duke it out with the rest of us on Wikipedia and his other projects. “Jimmy Wales is a very open person,” says his friend Irene McGee, the host of the radio show No One’s Listening and a former Real World
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nobody would recognize and tell the story as if it’s the same.” >>> the individualist communitarian Rock star status can be fleeting, of course. Whether Jimmy Wales will still be meeting fancy people who run countries five years from now may depend on the success of his new venture, Wikia. Wikipedia is
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Virilio, Paul Virtual communities. See also Multiuser domains; Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link Virtual personae Virtual reality Visual neglect von Mises, Ludwig VW Wales, Christine Wales, Jimmy Wales, Kira Walkman Wallop Wall Street Journal Walmart War of the Worlds (radio broadcast) Wassup Page The Watercooler Watts, Duncan Weak ties Web. See World Wide
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash · 23 May 2016 · 743pp · 201,651 words
, French and German after the spread of printing in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.12 Emojis, GIFs and shared pictures are thrusting up beside text. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, told me that the most frequent and difficult controversies they had to deal with on Wikipedia related to images rather than
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is ‘to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful’. Wikipedia wants us to imagine, in the words of its founder, Jimmy Wales, ‘a world in which every single person is given access to the sum of all human knowledge’. Those are aspirations, not achieved realities—but in
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a volunteer-driven Wikipedia in any language were to go really wild, the Foundation could take it down. And then there is the founding father, Jimmy Wales, who still enjoys unique personal authority. Rejecting the description of him as a benevolent dictator—‘I wasn’t a dictator’, he told me, ‘and certainly
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Amendment and the First. Noting that the head of Egypt’s main spy agency had boasted that he was ‘in constant contact’ with the CIA, Jimmy Wales and the executive director of the Wikimedia foundation invited readers of the New York Times to imagine a Wikipedia editor in Egypt who wanted to
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-expression-privacy/, and map of June 2012 at European Green Party, ‘Europe-wide Demonstrations against ACTA’, 8 June 2012, http://perma.cc/37XC-3Q4B 173. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, explained the reasons and the impact at the Oxford launch of freespeechdebate.com, ‘Free Speech Debate Launch with
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Jimmy Wales’, Free Speech Debate, http://freespeechdebate.com/en/media/free-speech-debate-launch-with-jimmy-wales/ 174. I first made this point at an ‘Open Up?’ conference organised by the Omidyar Network; see video
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, Seeing is Believing’, Financial Times, 12 April 2013, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/79c6734a-9d3f-11e2-a8db-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3r7sgZpup 13. conversation with Jimmy Wales, Oxford, 19 January 2012 14. for Kozakiewicz, see Brian Pellot, ‘The Greatest Olympic Free Speech Moments’, Free Speech Debate, http://freespeechdebate.com/en/2012/07
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Speech Debate, http://freespeechdebate.com/en/case/the-stop-online-piracy-act/. See also ‘Free Speech Debate launch with Jimmy Wales’, Free Speech Debate, http://freespeechdebate.com/en/media/free-speech-debate-launch-with-jimmy-wales/ 36. The Harvard Library, ‘Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing’, http://perma.cc/WJD2-Y7H4 37. Janet
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Pickover, ‘Is Your Entry about to Be Deleted from Wikipedia?’, http://wikidumper.blogspot.co.uk 73. see http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Main_Page 74. Jimmy Wales, conversation with the author, Oxford, 19 January 2012 75. see ‘Wikipedia Naming Conventions’, Wikipedia, http://perma.cc/7ZHD-NMUL 76. Broughton 2008 77. Dan Glaister
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a survey of international writers: PEN America, ‘Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers’, January 2015, http://perma.cc/DH7U-3B2B 9. Jimmy Wales and Lila Tretikov, ‘Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users’, New York Times, 10 March 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on
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, Carol Sanger, Orville Schell, Eliot Schrage, Stephen Sedley, Soli Sorabjee, Philip Taubman, Daya Thassu, Mark Thompson, Lila Tretikov, Zeynep Tufekci, Barbara van Schewick, Jeremy Waldron, Jimmy Wales, Matt Walton, Nigel Warburton, Jeremy Weinstein, Rachel Whetstone, Kieran Williams, Rowan Williams, Justin Winslett, Tobias Wolff, Joss Wright, Tim Wu and Jonathan Zittrain. This book
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom · 4 Oct 2006 · 218pp · 44,364 words
all user-contributed. A truly open model. Wikipedia has fascinating origins that in many ways capture the evolution of an open system. It started with Jimmy Wales, a successful options-trader-turned-Internet-entrepreneur-turnedphilanthropist. In 2000, Wales launched a free online encyclopedia to be used by children whose parents couldn't
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(and quickly) edit the content of the site themselves. Sanger pitched the idea of using wiki technology at Nupedia. Taking a cue from Bill W, Jimmy Wales agreed, and Wikipedia was born. Just like AA, the project took off. Within five years, Wikipedia was available in two hundred languages and had extensive
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decentralized organization going and then cedes control to the members. Craig Newmark lets the users of craigslist decide which categories to list on the site. Jimmy Wales allows the members to take over the content of Wikipedia. Brian Behlendorf contributes his computer and lets the programmers take control of the Apache server
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way, we felt like Tom Nevins, the anthropologist, as he studied a completely different society and culture. One of the most intriguing catalysts around is Jimmy Wales, the catalyst behind Wikipedia. In our conversation, Jimmy was warm and positive from the get-go. "I'm a pathologically optimistic person," he declared, adding
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able to have these kinds of interactions with thousands—in fact, they thrive on meeting new people every day. It's impossible for someone like Jimmy Wales to have a deep relationship with each and every Wikipedia user he meets; there aren't enough hours in the day. For most of us
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. When you speak with Josh, you THE HIDDEN POWER OF THE CATALYST want to forsake your car and ride a bicycle. When you talk to Jimmy Wales, you want to spend hours in front of the computer contributing to Wikipedia. Think of the earliest contributors to Wikipedia, for example. At the time
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most difficult and counterintuitive element of being a catalyst is getting out of the way. If Josh Sage kept looking over activists' shoulders, or if Jimmy Wales demanded daily reports from Wikipedia volunteers, the members of those networks would become unmotivated and the organization's creativity would come to a halt. In
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line. IBM and Sun incorporated this lesson as well—they opened up their software and let engineers all over the world help make it better. Jimmy Wales understood that in some far corner of the world there was someone with unique knowledge about greyhounds, someone else who was an expert on South
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Sage Thome, Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez, Stewart Alsop, Ingrid Munro, Robin Wolaner, Tom Nevins, David Bradford, Jiggs Davis, David Garrison, Niklas Zennstrom, David Dorman, Scott Cook, Jimmy Wales, Scott McNealy, Daniel Taylor, Tim Draper, and Brian Greenberg. We are grateful for the support of Stanford professor William Barnett, Chris Wing, Jessie Labor, Joseph
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