Jimmy Wales
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Yeah.
Yeah, I know Yuval.
He wrote a really nice blurb for my book.
I was very appreciative.
Yeah, I mean, that's what a lot of people thought.
And in fact, it's one of the, to me, it's one of the more interesting things is to sort of take that initial thought that anybody would have and then really think through like, okay, but how do we do that?
Like, what is it?
How does it work?
You know, and it's a lot of details.
It's a lot of it's in the seven rules, you know, things like transparency, you can see every edit, you know, we try to be very open, like anyone can come and
participate and, you know, you see something wrong, you can come in and change it or you can come in and leave a note on the talk page and go, hey, you know, did you see this source?
And then people hopefully will go, yeah, or sometimes they go, yeah, but, you know, blah, blah, blah, like you just went through.
So, yeah, it's remarkable.
But I think it is a testament, as you said, it restores a bit of faith in humanity that
There's a lot of just really nice people who just are like, yeah, this sounds cool.
I'm going to help out.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we actually looked at the 1911 Britannica because it was in public domain.
So it was out of copyright because it was so old.
And we could just copy it all in and start from there.