Jimmy Wales

speaker

6,110 appearances 12 recordings 11 series first heard Jun 2023 last heard 21 Jun

Jimmy Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 11 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Conversations · Jimmy Wales says it is possible to have a collaborative, trusting world online · 27 May 2026 podcast

You know, it was like very, like, it wasn't fun.

And I realized, okay, this isn't going to work.

It has to be fun.

It has to be.

And, you know, much, much later, there was, the article I was going to write was about Robert Merton, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in

option pricing theory, which is what I had published a paper when I was an academic in finance and so forth.

I thought, oh, I know his work, and it was all very scary.

But later, when Richard Allman won the Nobel Prize, we didn't have an article about him because he was very young.

So I just happened to be online when the news flashed up, and I was like, oh, we don't have an article.

So I just wrote

he won the Nobel Prize and hit save, you know?

And that wasn't a very good article, but, you know, within a couple of days, people had come and had it and so on.

So it made it a fun process rather than not fun.

So with Wikipedia, we had sort of said, look, this is too heavy, this whole seven-stage review process.

And the community of people who had come together, we had a couple hundred people on the mailing list, and people were excited about it, even though in two years, we had only managed to get about two dozen articles done.

Because the process was so hard.

And so I was like, well, let's make it easier.

And so somebody showed me the idea of wiki.

So wiki is software.

It just means a website anybody can edit.

Showing 881–900 of 6,110 · page 45 of 306