tagged w/ Jimmy Wales
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Wales says that reports of Wikipedia's clampdown to prevent errors have themselves been in error. Wikipedia's ruling body of volunteers never decided to impose restrictions on all articles about living people.Wales says that reports of Wikipedia's clampdown to prevent errors have... more
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Wikipedia has met its fundraising goal of $6 million US with a bit to spare just days after founder Jimmy Wales made a personal pitch for donations.
Several slightly different figures appeared on Wikipedia pages late Thursday, but all of them were over the figure the free online encyclopedia said it needs to sustain the operation in 2008.
On Dec. 23, after the organization had been soliciting funds for months, it had slightly less than $4 million.
That day, Wales posted an open letter asking users to help keep the encyclopedia "free to use by anyone for any purpose."
More than 275 million people use the site every month, he said, and Wikipedia wanted to keep ads off its pages.
The site, backed by a U.S. charitable foundation, said the $6 million is needed to cover the cost of managing traffic on the web and improving the software that runs the site.
It has a paid staff of 23 people, but the content is provided by volunteers who contribute articles — more than 11 million in 265 languages, Wales said.Wikipedia has met its fundraising goal of $6 million US with a bit to spare just days... more
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Talk about Web 2.OMG! Wikipedia founder, Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales gets outed as "a creep" by ex-lover and FOX News personality, Rachel Marsden, who forwarded their steamy IMs and the following breakup email around the Net:
"I only have one thing to say to you: You are the sleazebag I always suspected you were, and should have listened more carefully to my gut instincts -- and to my friends . No, in fact, you are much, much worse than I ever expected. You are an absolute creep, and it was a colossal mistake on my part to have gotten involved with you. Now, my suspicions about you have been proven dead-on. I never again want anything to do with you, and though I have every intention of putting all of this behind me ASAP (which will be VERY easy to do, given the disgusting reality), I am happy to tell anyone who happens to ask precisely what I think of you. There is nothing good left to say whatsoever. Goodbye Jimmy, and good riddance."
More from their IM sessions after the jump.Talk about Web 2.OMG! Wikipedia founder, Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales gets outed as... more
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Imagine all your dirty relationship laundry on Wikipedia. Sweet huh. Definitely not a good weekend for Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder).
Friday news surfaced that Mr. Wales (married - but divorcing) was having an "affair" with "Canadian TV pundit" Rachel Marsden. Evidence of the affair appeared in the form of transcripts on Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag. On Saturday Wales posted a statement on the Wikipedia Foundations website (later moved to his on personal site) that his affair with Ms. Marsden was OVER.
Very creative way to break up with someone. That is worse than the post-it note episode from "Sex in the City."
Ms. Marsden responded by selling his clothes on Ebay. HAHA
What a weekend.Imagine all your dirty relationship laundry on Wikipedia. Sweet huh. Definitely not a... more
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The Wikia Search project has assembled the basic technologies for a search engine, including a search application, search algorithm and Web crawler. The project will allow technology enthusiasts to help filter sites and rank search results, using a community model akin to that of Wikipedia. Launching Jan. 7 2007.The Wikia Search project has assembled the basic technologies for a search engine,... more
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