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Jimmy Wales

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The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

and say, okay, but we can report on the dispute.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

So, rather than trying to say abortion is a sin or abortion is a human right, you could say Catholic Church position is this, and the critics have responded thusly.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

You'll start to hear a little of the Wikipedia style.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

Because I believe that that's what a reader really wants.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

They don't want to come and get one side of the story.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

They want to come and say, okay, wait, hold on.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

I actually want to understand what people are arguing about.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

I want to understand both sides.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

What are the best arguments here?

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

Yeah, exactly.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

So, you know, oftentimes if you see something repeating, you think, huh, okay, well, why does it say that?

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

Often you'll be able to go on the talk page and read sort of what the debate was and how it was, and you can weigh in there and you can join in and say, oh, actually, I still think you've got it wrong.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

Here's some more sources, here's some more information, maybe propose a compromise, that sort of thing.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

And in my experience, it turns out that a lot of

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

Pretty ideological people on either side are actually more comfortable doing that because they feel confident in their beliefs.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

I think it's the people who, and you'll find lots of them on Twitter, for example, they're not that confident in their own values and their own belief system.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

And they feel fear or panic or anger if someone's disagreeing with them rather than saying, huh, okay, look, that's different from what I think.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

Let me explain my position, which is where your more intellectually grounded person will come from.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

Well, typically the subjects that are restricted are, we try to keep that as short as we can.

The Daily
'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

The most common type of case is if something's really big in the news or if some big online influencer says, ah, Wikipedia is wrong, go and do something about it.