Jimmy Wales, de son nom complet Jimmy Donal Wales, surnommé Jimbo Wales, né le 8 août 1966, à Huntsville, Alabama, est un homme d'affaires américain.
Il est le fondateur du portail web américain Bomis et cofondateur de l'encyclopédie libre et gratuite du web Wikipédia , ainsi que d'autres projets fondés sur le wiki, comme Wikia.
“Les livres sous licence libre sont la prochaine grosse révolution dans l'éducation.”
The freely licenced text books are the next big thing in education.
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Dernière phrase du discours portant le projet wikibooks.
I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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“Notre objectif est d'atteindre la qualité de Britannica ou mieux.”
Our goal is to get to Britannica quality or better.
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Une étude de la revue Nature montre que la qualité des articles scientifiques de Wikipédia est proche de celle de Britannica, souvent considérée la meilleure référence encyclopédique généraliste.
“Je suis opposé à autoriser les avocats payés d'éditer des articles Wikipédia…”
I am opposed to allowing paid advocates to edit in article space at all…
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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.
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relevé par Edward Lewine, le 28 novembre 2007, pour le New York Times, dans l'article « The Encyclopedist’s Lair http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-domains-t.html?ex=1196139600&en=25f7b166ceba3519&ei=5070&emc=eta1 ». Citation Le Figaro du 15-16 janvier 2011 reprise dans la rubrique « Vite dit » (colonne de droite).
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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“Nous voulons libérer le savoir. Nous sommes une force politique, nous sommes de la dynamite!”
Discours de Jimbo en août 2005 à Berlin à l'occasion de la première Wikimania .
Announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation Board has voted to enable Wikipedia to be licensed under a Creative Commons license. "Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons" (30 November 2007) http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/
Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, press conference, 0'14 (August 2008)
Jimmy Wales on tech's future, Orlando Sentinel http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2007-11-03/business/horowitz03_1_wikipedia-jimmy-wales-copyright (03 November 2007)
Long displayed quote on his User page at Wikipedia, and many other Wikimedia projects
“EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.”
Wikipedia-l mailing list http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/083549.html (17 October 2007)
“IAR is policy, always has been.”
Edit comment http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules&diff=70516723, removing attempts to minimize the significance of the Wikipedia:Ignore all rules policy statement (19 August 2006)
As quoted in ExpressIndia (7 September 2005) http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=54191
“I think that reality exists and that it's knowable”
Quoted in an artwork, also depicting Wales, in the 2018 exhibition 'Internet Giants : Masters of the Universe' by Langlands & Bell.
As quoted in "Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds," by Robin "Roblimo" Miller, Slashdot (28 July 2004)
User talk statement (7 April 2005) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ignore_all_rules/Archive_1#from_User_talk:Jimbo_Wales
Wikipedia-l mailing list (18 December 2005, 15:39 UTC)
"Identity question for world's encyclopaedia", The Times (30 December 2005) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article782970.ece?print=yes&randnum=1188516145101
Source: In a discussion about Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:BonziBUDDY&diff=74314772&oldid=74246581 (07 September 2006)
“Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.”
While talking about Wikibooks project; TED - Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html, July 2005
As quoted in "Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds," http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230 by Robin "Roblimo" Miller, Slashdot (28 July 2004)
Interview with news24.com http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2102112,00.html (April 2007)
Source: Reminiscing in Jimmy Wales: “Wikipedia is from a different era” https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2021/01/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-different-era" (January 14, 2021)
Source: As quoted in "Who knows?", The Guardian (26 October 2004)
