“Hacemos que Internet no apeste.”
25 de septiembre de 2005, sobre Wikipedia.
Fuente: Q & A http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1042.
Jimmy Donal «Jimbo» Wales es un empresario de Internet estadounidense, cofundador y promotor de Wikipedia. Además, fue fundador de Nupedia, antecesora de Wikipedia, y, junto con Tim Shell, de la compañía Bomis. También fue cofundador de la empresa con fines de lucro Wikia, junto con Angela Beesley. Se graduó en las universidades de Auburn y Alabama. Junto con Larry Sanger, Wales fundó Wikipedia, una enciclopedia basada en el concepto wiki y el modelo de software libre.
Wales es presidente emérito de la Fundación Wikimedia, una fundación sin ánimo de lucro con sede en San Francisco. Ha declarado que se vio influido, durante su juventud, por los libros de Ayn Rand y la ideología californiana. Mientras estudiaba en la universidad, fue dueño y moderador de una lista de correo denominada Discusión moderada en filosofía objetivista.
“Hacemos que Internet no apeste.”
25 de septiembre de 2005, sobre Wikipedia.
Fuente: Q & A http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1042.
“Quiero dar una enciclopedia gratis y libre a cada persona del planeta.”
14 de julio de 2005, sobre Wikipedia.
Fuente: El País http://elpais.com/diario/2005/07/14/ciberpais/1121305223_850215.html.
17 de enero de 2012, sobre el apagón de la Wikipedia en inglés.
Fuente: La Nación https://archive.is/20130104051314/www.nacion.com/2012-01-17/Tecnologia/Wikipedia-en-ingles-cerrara-manana-en-protesta-por-plan-antipirateria.aspx
Sin fuentes
Sobre la competencia de Wikipedia.
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
Fuente: 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)
Fuente: 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)
Fuente: As quoted in "Who knows?", The Guardian (26 October 2004)