Jimmy Wales
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You're not chasing after partisan audiences and things like that.
But I do think that's a big data.
Data is important.
Transparency.
I think, you know, realistically, you know, one of the things that Wikipedia does that's kind of odd is we'll have a, you know, at the top of a page, the neutrality of this article has been disputed.
And I always... We've all seen it.
Yeah, we've all seen it.
And I always say, you know, I...
I kind of wish sometimes the New York Times would put a banner up just saying, you know, we had a big fight in the newsroom.
We weren't quite sure.
So like we decided to roll this.
But yeah, yeah.
But here's a little bit of their inside thinking like we did want to report this.
We're not sure we've got the full story yet because that pretending to be perfection all the time.
People see through that and they know, of course, and I think they're willing to say, yeah, like actually journalism is quite hard, you know, so a little more transparency is always good.
No, not really.
I mean, people, you know, I meet a lot of people and people often are like, well, you know, my Wikipedia entry.
What about this?
What about that?
And I'm like, yeah, send us an email.