Jimmy Wales Community Quotations

Most of the prominent contributors are not anonymous. We are an actual community in the sense that we know each other and have fun working together.

Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are.

Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.