Jimmy Wales
@jimmy_wales
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What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
@mattyglesias
Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?
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Ooh this is taking off, check out my soundcloud (ha!):
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If the NHS will to support it, I could roll out the German Corona-Warn-App (privacy respecting, official diagnosis rather than self-reporting as I understand it) in short time at zero cost to the taxpayers.
If the government can't pull themselves together, we can.
Please RT.
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@katfan4eva
If Elon is now saying "We don't care about freedom of expression if it interferes with making money" then he should just say that.
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This is one of the best articles about how Wikipedia works that I have ever seen:
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I forgot my bank password and lost my entire net worth. No, actually, that didn't happen, because banks work and bitcoin doesn't.
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Someone convinced me to give Trump 100 days. I took a breath and agreed to try. Day 1,
#alternativefacts
, and I am done. Game on.
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I love Turkey. I love the Turkish culture and people. The beautiful city of Istanbul... great food, great wine, great culture. I call on Erdogan to unblock Wikipedia and to listen to the people!
#tamam
#wemissturkey
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My entire life until now, I felt humans were making progress. Uneven, confused, wrong at times, but progress. Now? Idiots run the world.
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@QuantumObserver
I'm not sure what you're asking me. How much does "the left-wing" pay me? I would say zero but again I'm not really sure what you mean.
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Fast moving claims and counter claims, and
@elonmusk
has removed all the core features that made it even remotely possible to tell real journalists from fakes.
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This contact tracing app situation in the UK is the height of incompetence on so many levels.
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Joke: A man rings 999 in a panic. "My wife is 9 months pregnant and has just started screaming!" "What is she saying?" "She is ranting about Jews!" "Don't worry, it only means she's gone into Labour..."
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@SimaoPedroS
This is not true, sorry. I mean, of course, the Portuguese Wikipedia community edits Wikipedia all the time, editing, updating, debating, discussing.
But we do not bend to the will of governments, anywhere.
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@GSR6669
@LynAldenContact
Just FYI, this is completely untrue. We did not change the definition of recession. There was no request from the US Government. It. Didn't. Happen.
Wherever you are getting your information from - check again.
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@sedboihourz
@nickiminachhh
@Wikipedia
Almost every article on Wikipedia has sources. Are you on drugs?
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@gianttinderbox
Sure - it's a mix. The majority are elected by the community through an open process. Some are selected for specific expertise (audit experience as an easy example). And then there's me.
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@nickiminachhh
@Wikipedia
I don't recommend that you do that - it is important to join the discussion. In actual fact, the article was incredibly poorly written and has zero sources.
This isn't about religious sentiments, it's about not putting junk into Wikipedia.
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I am going to the airport. Leaving the UK today.
I will be back when he leaves.
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Contemplating changing the name of Wikipedia... to Wikipedia.
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@nickiminachhh
@Wikipedia
Wikipedia doesn't work like that. We engage in serious rational discussion. It's very different from the madhouse of twitter.
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Jeremy Corbyn is a bad man.
WATCH | Corbyn exposed on the anti-Semitic filth he's let fester in his party. Corbyn evades and squirms and refuses to apologise to Britain's Jewish population - utterly disgraceful! Bravo to
@afneil
- a proper broadcaster who nails it every time
#andrewneilinterviews
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I am sitting in Singapore reading a newspaper online that I can't read in Europe due to bad laws in Europe. Think about that. And Europe is getting worse.
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@MDjava
@katfan4eva
I did criticize that on many occasions. Pay attention. I have been criticizing people for going along with rights violations for many years.
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@nickiminachhh
@Wikipedia
Hi Nicki,
Wikipedia doesn't work that way. We don't accept payment to include things, nor to delete them.
The relevant discussion is here:
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@proetrie
1. Wealth
2. Lots of followers on twitter
3. Advanced degrees (not a terrible signal, but wildly imperfect)
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The government are ramming through this Online Safety Bill even though it is a travesty of justice which will make the UK Internet obviously less safe. 1/
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You, the Internet user, have lost a huge battle today in Internet parliament. The free and open internet is being quickly handed over to corporate giants at the expense of ordinary people. This is not about helping artists, it is about empowering monopolistic practices.
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@QuantumObserver
I don't know what you're talking about really. But no, I don't get paid by "the left wing". I mostly make money from giving speeches at corporate events and tech conferences globally.
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Your marketing materials need to be updated immediately - as people seem to be reading this as some kind of endorsement from me. I'm coming to speak my mind, which includes that BSV offers nothing for Wikipedia and that there is zero chance we would ever use it.
Jimmy Jimmy -thrilled to welcome another Jimmy to
#CGLondon
.
@Wikipedia
founder
@jimmy_wales
joins as another keynote speaker.
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What's wrong with twitter in a single screenshot.
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If you're avoiding Reddit now, I'm currently building a community-led and funded project. It's not done by any means, but I think you would enjoy it. We even have a draft API!
Test :
API docs:
Donate:
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Access to information is a fundamental human right. Turkish people I will always stand with you to fight for this right.
#turkey
Türkiye'de Wikipedia'ya erişim engeli: "İdari tedbir"in nedeni bilinmiyor
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@sedboihourz
@nickiminachhh
@Wikipedia
Did you look at the article? Please do so and then try to tell me with a straight face that it was quality.
Wikipedia is not about "lefts propaganda" - that's just a slur by people who haven't bothered to actually look into it.
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The New York Times is protected by Section 230, and by the First Amendment. Facebook is protected by Section 230, and by the First Amendment. There is no such thing in Section 230 as the distinction between a "publisher" and a "platform".
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Jeremy Corbyn. Today. Promoting a candidate with a history of antisemitic remarks.
I have no words.
Here's Boris Johnson's record.
And here's the Labour candidate who can beat him at the next General Election.
Campaign with us this Sunday to
#Unseat
@BorisJohnson
:
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Access to information is a fundamental human right. Turkish people, I will always stand with you and fight for this right.
#turkey
Confirmed: All editions of the
#Wikipedia
online encyclopedia blocked in
#Turkey
as of 8:00AM local time
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The US government just guaranteed a million extra copies sold!
The government of the United States has just announced a lawsuit over my memoir, which was just released today worldwide. This is the book the government does not want you to read: (link corrected)
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I remember when eBay was the terrifying thing: "Someone is selling their baby on eBay!". I remember when Wikipedia was the terrifying thing: "OMG there's an error in Wikipedia."
Now, ChatGPT is the terrifying thing. And...
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DeepSeek, a new AI chatbot from China. Because it is from China, I thought I would ask it a sensitive question - I asked it about the Chinese government's censorship of China. Watch what happened next.
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Could everyone help me get this message to as many MEP's as you can: "I am only asking you to vote NO tomorrow on the European Copyright Directive so that we can have real debate in the EU Parliament in September. Democracy requires it. -- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia"
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@nickiminachhh
@sedboihourz
@Wikipedia
Reliable sources for a start. You have zero references, much less references to quality sources. The fact that this probably belongs as a part of another article (I can't say for sure) would also be a valid question to discuss.
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@techUK
Speak for yourself. To whatever extent I am a voice within the UK tech sector, I am calling on MPs to back a People's Vote. And I will campaign that we vote to reject this whole nonsense.
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@DanielKrawisz
@Ckatoshi
@Wikipedia
That isn't how blockchain works. That suggestion - to force people to strongly identify and pay for the privilege of editing Wikipedia - is a bad idea independently. And ot would be easy and cheap to implement without blockchain.
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CNN should be ashamed. This is not journalism this is abuse.
A Florida woman who ran a Trump supporters page that unwittingly promoted a Russian-coordinated event on Facebook says she doesn’t believe that she was influenced by Kremlin-linked trolls
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If anyone wonders what has gone wrong in the UK, a good starting point would be scientific illiteracy in government.
If herd immunity existed, measles and chicken pox would have been wiped out years ago. There is no such thing as herd immunity.
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@elonmusk
@micsolana
Elon kindly take a moment to read this:
Reading too much Twitter nonsense is making you stupid. Call me next week if you want a real discussion.
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@elonmusk
@bitcloud
I wonder if you care to respond to my specific criticism. The other night, a blue tick account pretending to be an Al Jazeera reporter had significant success spreading misinformation. It is now more difficult, thanks to the removal of legacy blue ticks, to identify such fraud.
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Excited to attend Shabbat dinner in Davos tonight. Many VIPs in attendance. Possibly even the Israeli Honorary Consul of the Marshall Islands
@rahavran
! Will look for his parking space on the way in!
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I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on
#sopa
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This is so cute
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@LouiseMensch
The constitutional court has ruled that their block of Wikipedia must be lifted. I am welcoming back the people of Turkey to Wikipedia!
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@sedboihourz
@nickiminachhh
@Wikipedia
Almost every article on Wikipedia has multiple sources. Do yourself a favor and go have a look. And stop being stupid.
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Banning end to end encryption is impossible. Attempts to do so are idiotic. If you care about online safety then you need to embrace strong encryption. Anyone against strong encryption is against online safety. End of story.
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@nickiminachhh
@ajaatPandit
@Wikipedia
Of course there are a great many things that should be deleted from Wikipedia. New bad things are entered and deleted every day. This is the normal operation of Wikipedia.
Twitter lynch mobs aren't really helpful to the pursuit of truth.
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Van Gogh is going to think twice about taking his private jet to the next big oil conference in Saudi Arabia, am I right?
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You might remember this tweet. I've been busy since.
#wikitribune
Someone convinced me to give Trump 100 days. I took a breath and agreed to try. Day 1,
#alternativefacts
, and I am done. Game on.
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I grew up in Alabama. Racism is never right. Corbyn's tolerance and support of violence and racism saddens me greatly.
24 dignitaries voice concern over voting for labour at the election in four weeks time.
#NeverCorbyn
#Election2019
#labourloss
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This episode of Black Mirror is really too long for my tastes.
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@VoteBlue022
I sort of think you don't really care but I'm actually a big supporter of free markets. You might want to think a bit more about what that means.
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@michaelplis
I don't know about on youtube but I agree with you that a straightforward and concise explanation would be helpful.
There's a lot on Wikipedia's community-written help pages, but we tend to be super wordy.
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In 2001
@Wikipedia
was launched. Thank you to the millions of Wikipedians who have contributed to the web's biggest encyclopedia over the last 18 years.
#Web30
#ForTheWeb
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@bsvking
@DanielKrawisz
@Ckatoshi
@Wikipedia
It is really important that records can be changed. Removing that feature would be bad.
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@elonmusk
@bitcloud
I think that was a real mistake, and this is the real problem as a result of that mistake. The original purpose of blue ticks - to help readers assess the source of information in a tweet - was destroyed.
That's not good.
Insulting Wikipedia is not relevant to this question.
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Everyone please be aware of and keep highlighting what is going on with WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich. Journalism is not a crime.
#FreeEvan
#IStandWithEvan
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday!
#sopa
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Dear fans of Sushant Singh Rajput,
Wikipedia is based on reliable sources, not twitter campaigns.
Discuss with me here:
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If Trump's dying corrupt Presidency succeeds in repealing the most important free speech provision after the 1st Amendment, I am going to be very cross and there will be consequences.
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Everyone please relax. The technology to look up a postcode in a database and return a number 1, 2, or 3 was only invented in the 1950s. It's still quite hard.
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@RobLlwyd
@adasensehac
@CantreBreiniol
@AlexHinojo
Without any reservations I condemn the violence against peaceful voters in the Catalan referendum.
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@ajaatPandit
@nickiminachhh
@Wikipedia
Not "suddenly" - we've always been very strict.
Anyone can try to edit - and cry their eyes out if they do it badly and their work is deleted. Nothing new in that.
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Encryption is mathematics. It is not possible to ban encryption or to impose legally that only some weak types are used. Period.
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Twitter, except every tweet is a neutral fact based article worked on by many people so that it educates rather than destroys your brain. I call it Wikipedia.
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@UnSubtleDesi
I am sorry you are so uninterested in facts. Hopefully in the future you will come to some better place. I wish you well.
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I am Jimmy Whales. You may have heard of my project, Whikipedia.
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Italian Wikipedia has blacked out today to raise awareness about the disastrous EU Copyright Directive. Call your MEPs today. The vote is Thursday.
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@realDonaldTrump
First they came for the flag burners, and I did not speak out - for I was not a flag burner.
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I do NOT APPROVE of vandalizing wikipedia for comedic effect. But this is exquisite:
http://t.co/ReAWTYyppQ
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My new social network now has over 25,000 members and growing. That's growth of 23,500 in a week. 1/
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Section 230 is for you. Whoever you are. You are reading this and section 230 is yours. Don't let them take it away.
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Remember that 9/11 "truthers" are still with us today.
For the next 20 years, 2020 Election "truthers" will be with us, insisting there was massive fraud despite all evidence pointing the other way.
Both should be treated with as much reverence as "flat earthers".
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I'm working on it but need support to see it through. is about to release a totally revamped version - I wouldn't have announced it early but this twitter stuff makes it timely.
@John_Hempton
@elonmusk
Seems to me that someone like a
@jimmy_wales
(of Wikipedia) or some of the good folks getting fired from Twitter have got to be able to set up an alternative platform and figure out a way to make the move en masse as painless as possible. Technology isn't the barrier, I suspect.
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I just saw the expression "dog racism" trending and I thought well the problem is that the American Bully XL has no sense of English irony despite having lived here all their lives.
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The only longterm route to peace, prosperity, and freedom is knowledge. Wikipedia's 20th birthday is next Friday. Please support us, and support my passion for a more thoughtful, more educated world.
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