Jimmy Wales
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It's okay, yeah.
We've been, you know, we're stable.
We're very cautious with money, so we always try to build our reserves and so on.
And then, you know, recently, I don't know, Elon tweeted defund Wikipedia.
I think we made about $5 million that day.
So you can text Elon.
I know you guys have been in touch.
You can text him and say, tweet about us again when it gets to the end of the year.
Well, you have had some conversations.
I draw a distinction between what's going on maybe with politics and journalism, the culture wars and all of that, and day-to-day life.
Because I think in day-to-day life, people still do trust each other.
People generally think most people are basically nice.
And we're all human beings bumping along on the planet, trying to do our best.
And obviously, there are definitely people who aren't trustworthy.
But the crisis we see in politics, trust in politicians, trust in journalism, trust in business, that is coming from other places and is something that we can fix.
Yeah, I mean, I do think Wikipedia isn't as good as I want it to be.
And so I think that's part of why people do have a certain amount of trust for us, because we try to be really transparent.
You know, you see the notice at the top of the page sometimes that says the neutrality of this page has been disputed or the following section doesn't cite any sources.
People like that.