Jimmy Wales

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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.

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That would have been troll fest.

So I, you know, we added that.

But also it didn't keep the past history.

So if somebody came and made three edits, it kept maybe three versions.

If you made three edits, the oldest version was gone forever.

So that's actually some of the very earliest history got lost because of that.

Yeah, so basically what happens is if somebody comes in and vandalizes, you can always just revert to the last good version.

We had to sort of think about some of the rules.

So very early it was like civility is actually really important, like be nice to each other.

We had...

Actually, a great innovation was the idea of the talk page.

Most wikis out there, they just had one namespace.

And it was like, no, we actually need an encyclopedia article and a talk page.

Ooh, amazing.

So we did that.

And so there were a lot of the details, but really it was very human.

It was really saying people coming together in good faith to say, no, we're trying to write an encyclopedia.

And how do you settle an endless argument?

This is part of what the neutrality principle comes from, is to say, look...

Wikipedia can't take sides in any debate.

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