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<div id="primary"> <div id="content" role="main"> <nav id="nav-above"> <h1 class="assistive-text section-heading">Post navigation</h1> <div class="nav-previous"><a href="https://jimmywales.com/page/2/" ><span class="meta-nav">←</span> Older posts</a></div> </nav> <article id="post-241" class="post-241 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-sopa category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="post-date"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2012/01/19/a-note-on-bravery/" title="Permalink to A note on bravery" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">19</span> <span class="year">2012</span> </a> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2012/01/19/a-note-on-bravery/" rel="bookmark">A note on bravery</a> </h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>A lot of people have been posting on twitter or sending me email thanking me for bravery in opposing SOPA. That’s a very very kind sentiment, and I really do appreciate it!</p> <p>But I want to push back a little bit on it and reflect on where the real bravery is in the fight for free knowledge for everyone. I live in a country which respects the freedom of speech. I am at no risk of prison or physical violence or monetary fines for my views. If the worst that gets thrown at me is MPAA head Christopher Dodd saying that an Internet uprising is an “abuse of power” then I will survive just fine. :-)</p> <div class="mceTemp"> <div data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_250" style="width: 210px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/200px-hossein-derakhshan.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-250" data-attachment-id="250" data-permalink="https://jimmywales.com/2012/01/19/a-note-on-bravery/200px-hossein-derakhshan/" data-orig-file="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/200px-hossein-derakhshan.jpg" data-orig-size="200,265" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="200px-Hossein-Derakhshan" data-image-description="<p>Hossein Derakshan, a personal hero</p> " data-image-caption="<p>Hossein Derakshan, a personal hero</p> " data-medium-file="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/200px-hossein-derakhshan.jpg?w=200" data-large-file="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/200px-hossein-derakhshan.jpg?w=200" class="size-full wp-image-250" title="200px-Hossein-Derakhshan" src="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/200px-hossein-derakhshan.jpg?w=593" alt="Hossein Derakshan, a personal hero" srcset="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/200px-hossein-derakhshan.jpg 200w, https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/200px-hossein-derakhshan.jpg?w=113&h=150 113w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-250" class="wp-caption-text">Hossein Derakshan, a personal hero</p></div> <p>I know of Wikipedia volunteers in authoritarian countries, though, who <em>are</em> incredibly brave. <a title="Hossein Derakshan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Derakhshan" target="_blank">Hossein Derakhshan</a> is a young man I first met at Wikimania 2005 in Frankfurt. A Wikipedia editor and blogger, he is serving a 19 and a half year sentence in Iran for his writings on the Internet.</p> </div> <p>I know of a Chinese Wikipedian who was visited by the police for setting up a mirror of Wikipedia multiple times during the era when China banned Wikipedia.</p> <p>There are many more like them, all around the world.</p> <p>These, and people like them, are my heroes. They are the people of true courage. I’m a very fortunate man in life, and I’m proud to stand up for freedom of speech and the right to access to knowledge in every circumstance that I can. But my courage, if it is courage, is nothing compared to the courage of those who are really risking life and limb to speak truth to power.</p> <p>Let us take a moment today to honor them.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> By Jimmy Wales <span class="sep">  </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="https://jimmywales.com/category/sopa/" rel="category tag">sopa</a>, <a href="https://jimmywales.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> </span> <div class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2012/01/19/a-note-on-bravery/#comments">22</a> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-61" class="post-61 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="post-date"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/08/19/wikia-hits-top-100-on-quantcast/" title="Permalink to Wikia hits top 100 on Quantcast :-)" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Aug</span> <span class="day">19</span> <span class="year">2009</span> </a> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/08/19/wikia-hits-top-100-on-quantcast/" rel="bookmark">Wikia hits top 100 on Quantcast :-)</a> </h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Wow, coming on the heels of the great news I got yesterday about our Comscore numbers…</p> <div data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_63" style="width: 287px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-63" data-attachment-id="63" data-permalink="https://jimmywales.com/2009/08/19/wikia-hits-top-100-on-quantcast/wikia_98/" data-orig-file="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wikia_98.png" data-orig-size="277,166" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Wikia hits 98 on Quantcast" data-image-description="<p>We’ve been watching this number lately – a few weeks ago I thought it would take a few months, but we hit it early!</p> " data-image-caption="<p>W00t!</p> " data-medium-file="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wikia_98.png?w=277" data-large-file="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wikia_98.png?w=277" class="size-full wp-image-63" title="Wikia hits 98 on Quantcast" src="https://jimmywales.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wikia_98.png?w=593" alt="W00t!" /><p id="caption-attachment-63" class="wp-caption-text">W00t!</p></div> <p>Just for fun, here’s a comparison of Wikia (all sites) with Mahalo (all sites). Some of you may know that Jason Calacanis enjoys poking at me and not long ago made a bit of a stir in the blogosphere by calling me a poser and saying I’m not a real entrepreneur. Who’s posing now, Jason? (Actually I love and respect Jason, even if he does like to talk trash, and had a nice visit with him at Mahalo not long ago, so this is all in fun. But I dare you tweet this blog post, Jason… ;-) ) <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/08/19/wikia-hits-top-100-on-quantcast/#more-61" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> By Jimmy Wales <span class="sep">  </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="https://jimmywales.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> </span> <div class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/08/19/wikia-hits-top-100-on-quantcast/#comments">2</a> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-46" class="post-46 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-general"> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="post-date"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/04/03/wikia-gaming-joins-wikia-entertainment-in-the-1-million-article-club/" title="Permalink to Wikia Gaming joins Wikia Entertainment in the 1 million article club" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Apr</span> <span class="day">3</span> <span class="year">2009</span> </a> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/04/03/wikia-gaming-joins-wikia-entertainment-in-the-1-million-article-club/" rel="bookmark">Wikia Gaming joins Wikia Entertainment in the 1 million article club</a> </h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Just got some new numbers (thanks Doug and Przemek for putting these together) for Wikia’s growth, especially in <a href="http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Gaming">gaming</a> and <a href="http://entertainment.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Entertainment">entertainment</a>, traditionally our strongest wikis.</p> <p>Gaming just crossed 1,000,000 and currently with 1,003,977 articles… joining Entertainment (1.1 million articles) in the “over a million” category. The raw breakdown looks like this:</p> <p> [Auto] => 15244<br /> [Creative] => 57257<br /> [Education] => 78914<br /> [Entertainment] => 1109651<br /> [Finance] => 12122<br /> [Gaming] => 1003977<br /> [Green] => 14113<br /> [Humor] => 155243<br /> [Lifestyle] => 201605<br /> [Music] => 49232<br /> [Philosophy] => 110072<br /> [Politics] => 37381<br /> [Science] => 120537<br /> [Sports] => 80924<br /> [Technology] => 52603<br /> [Toys] => 35392<br /> [Travel] => 57758<br /> [Wikia] => 232869</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> By Jimmy Wales <span class="sep">  </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="https://jimmywales.com/category/general/" rel="category tag">General</a> </span> <div class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/04/03/wikia-gaming-joins-wikia-entertainment-in-the-1-million-article-club/#comments">2</a> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-45" class="post-45 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-free-culture category-free-software category-wikia"> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="post-date"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/03/31/update-on-wikia/" title="Permalink to Update on Wikia – doing more of what’s working" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Mar</span> <span class="day">31</span> <span class="year">2009</span> </a> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/03/31/update-on-wikia/" rel="bookmark">Update on Wikia – doing more of what’s working</a> </h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>If there is one thing that I’ve learned in my career, it is to do more of what’s working, and less of what’s not.</p> <p>In past 24 months, Wikia.com has seen tremendous expansion. Nielsen recently recognized Wikia.com as the fifth fastest growing member community destination in February 2009:</p> <table class="chart" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <th>RANK</th> <th>Site</th> <th>Feb 08</th> <th>Feb 09</th> <th>% growth</th> </tr> <tr> <td class="axis">1</td> <td>Twitter.com</td> <td>475,000</td> <td>7,038,000</td> <td>1382%</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="axis">2</td> <td>Zimbio</td> <td>809,000</td> <td>2,752,000</td> <td>240%</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="axis">3</td> <td>Facebook</td> <td>20,043,000</td> <td>65,704,000</td> <td>228%</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="axis">4</td> <td>Multiply</td> <td>821,000</td> <td>2,394,000</td> <td>192%</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="axis">5</td> <td>Wikia</td> <td>1,381,000</td> <td>3,758,000</td> <td>172%</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="table_meta" colspan="5">source: Nielsen NetView, 2/09, U.S., Home and Work</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:100%;widows:2;orphans:2;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">Source:<br /> </span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitters-tweet-smell-of-success/"><span style="color:#0000ff;">http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitters-tweet-smell-of-success/ <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/03/31/update-on-wikia/#more-45" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></span></a></span></span></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> By Jimmy Wales <span class="sep">  </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="https://jimmywales.com/category/free-culture/" rel="category tag">free culture</a>, <a href="https://jimmywales.com/category/free-software/" rel="category tag">free software</a>, <a href="https://jimmywales.com/category/wikia/" rel="category tag">wikia</a> </span> <div class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/03/31/update-on-wikia/#comments">43</a> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-42" class="post-42 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-general tag-barack-obama tag-kira-wales"> <header class="entry-header"> <div class="post-date"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/01/20/jimmy-carter-obama-can-change-our-reputation-in-ten-minutes/" title="Permalink to Jimmy Carter: “Obama can change our reputation in ten minutes”" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">20</span> <span class="year">2009</span> </a> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://jimmywales.com/2009/01/20/jimmy-carter-obama-can-change-our-reputation-in-ten-minutes/" rel="bookmark">Jimmy Carter: “Obama can change our reputation in ten minutes”</a> </h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><strong>Note: My daughter recently (December 5th, 2008) had the opportunity to conduct an interview with President Jimmy Carter. One of her questions to him was about Obama and ended up being about Obama’s speech today. So I thought I’d post an excerpt. </strong></p> <p>Kira: With the new president elect Barack Obama, what do you think about him being the new president elect and do you have any advice for him?<br /> Jimmy Carter: Well, I have already talked to his major appointments – I have talked to the next Secretary of State and the next Security Advisor who will be in the White House with him and I have also yesterday talked with the person who is going to represent him and United States at the United Nations. 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