Jimmy Wales

I would say in terms of the development of Wikipedia and how we're so community first and community driven, you wouldn't really necessarily have that if the board were made up largely of investors who were worried about the profitability and things like that.

Also, I think it's important today for our intellectual independence.

We're under attack in various ways, as we've talked about.

And, you know, what's interesting is, you know, one of the things that isn't going to happen, actually, the most successful tweet I ever had, I think it was a New York Post journalist tweeted to Elon, you should just buy Wikipedia when he was complaining something about Wikipedia.

And I just wrote not for sale.

That was very popular.

But it isn't for sale.

And, you know, I just thought, you know what, you know, I would like to imagine myself as the person who would say to Elon, no, thank you for a $30 billion offer if I owned the whole thing.

But would I, you know, actually?

30 billion, you know, 30 million.

Yeah, I'm not interested.

You know, and so that's not going to happen because we're a charity and I don't get paid and the board doesn't get paid and all of that.

And I do think that's important for that independence that we're not we don't think in those terms.

We're not even interested in that.

Yeah, I haven't watched it.

I can't bear Tucker Carlson, so I'm going to have to just suck it up and watch, I suppose.

So I can't speak to the specifics in that sense, but the idea that everything is an equally valid source and that it's somehow wrong that Wikipedia tries to prioritize the mainstream media and quality newspapers, magazines, and make judgments about that

is not something I can in any way apologize for.

But you know, there's no question, like, one of my sort of fundamental beliefs is that Wikipedia should always stand ready to accept criticism and change.

And so to the extent that a criticism says, oh, Wikipedia is biased in a certain way, and that these are the flaws in the system, well, we should take that seriously.