Wikipedia

“His personal fortune is estimated to be not much more than one million dollars.”

“I began to understand, like, communities do inherently scale”

“And those kinds of sites have had almost zero impact at Wikipedia because while, you know, they might do well to share on Facebook something that comes from a publication called the Denver Guardian because, well, it looks like a news site, and Denver, everybod…”

“And I remember very clearly that I had hoped to raise about 20,000 dollars in a month's time, but in about two weeks' time we had raised nearly 30,000.”

“The ethos of the community is to say, look, no personal attacks. We're here to discuss the content. If you go on the discussion page for a controversial topic, you're not there to just debate that topic. You can do that lots of places on the internet. What you…”

“By the way, a few years ago, Jimmy got grief for trying to change his own Wikipedia entry, which is a big no-no. His entry showed he was born on August eighth, 1966, which is what his birth certificate also says. But it was a mistake, because according to his …”

“It's something around 75,000 People every month who make at least five edits. It's probably three to 5000 is the core community of people who are making a hundred or more edits.”

“So, at least in that regard, I do think that no one will remember me in 500 years, but they'll definitely remember Wikipedia.”

“Our revenue, I should know the number exactly off the top of my head, but I don't but I think last year was around eighty-five million dollars.”

“One of the reasons that Wikipedia became a huge success, I would say, ironically, is the lack of funding. Because if I had had the money, if I'd gone to Silicon Valley and convinced somebody to give me millions of dollars to start this, then your natural insti…”

“Wikipedia is the place to go to get the questions, not the answers. It's the way to get yourself oriented in a context, and I actually always say, go on the talk page of any article and see what are the Wikipedians struggling with”

“You're in some sense a leader, but you can't tell anyone what to do. They're volunteers, so you have to work with love and reason to kind of move people along in a useful way.”

“When the community gets together to debate something about what they want to have Wikipedia say or what a policy should be, there's never a question of, well, what will the funders think?”

“I know the first words in Wikipedia. They were hello world, and I know because I typed them.”

“And in fact, one of the reasons that Wikipedia became a huge success, I would say, ironically, is the lack of funding. Because if I had had the money, if I'd gone to Silicon Valley and convinced somebody to give me millions of dollars to start this, then your …”

“Yeah, our revenue, I should know the number exactly off the top of my head, but I don't but I think last year was around eighty-five million dollars.”

“Wikipedia is quite good. It is definitely not perfect, and what I always say is Wikipedia is the place to go to get the questions, not the answers. It's the way to get yourself oriented in a context, and I actually always say go on the talk page of any article…”

“And I made the decision to put it up at the domain name wikipedia.com rather than keep it on Newpedia, because we weren't really sure, like, we had a lot of academics and a lot of very serious people on the mailing list, and this seemed a bit of a crazy idea, …”

“Well, he's not listed by Forbes, but judging from media reports, Jimmy's net worth is nowhere near the billions. In fact, it's likely in the low millions. In other words, Jimmy Wales is quite possibly the least rich internet titan in the world.”

“Those kinds of sites have had almost zero impact at Wikipedia because while, you know, they might do well to share on Facebook something that comes from a publication called the Denver Guardian because, well, it looks like a news site, and Denver, everybody kn…”

“It's something around 75,000 People every month who make at least five edits. It's probably three to 5000 is the core community of people who are making a hundred or more edits.”

“If you think about the DNA of any organization, it's very difficult to stop an organization from following the money. So Wikipedia is a nonprofit, and as a nonprofit, we could run ads. No legal prohibition on a nonprofit running ads as a means of support.”

“This is when we came up with the biography of living persons policy, and really started to say, look, if it's a biography of a person, then anything negative in the article really needs to have a good quality source, because that's just not acceptable to have …”