Jimmy Wales

I want to understand both sides.

What are the best arguments here?

Yeah, exactly.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

And we get a rush of people who don't understand our culture, don't understand the rules, and they're just vandalizing or they're just sort of being rude and so on and so forth.

And we just, as a calming down, just like, okay, hold on, just slow down.

We're going to protect the page.

And then there are pages where, you know, the most common type of protection we call semi-protection, which just means you have to have had an account for, I forget the exact numbers, it's something like four days and you have made 10 edits without getting banned.

Now, typically, and this is what's surprising to a lot of people about Wikipedia, like 99% of the pages, maybe more than 99%,

You can edit without even logging in and it goes live instantly.

That's like mind boggling.