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  Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels, Belgium.
Wales went on to become a futures and options trader in Chicago, and within a few years became financially secure and independently wealthy.
Wales is a stamp collector, and has acquired quite a few stamps from various countries all over the world since he began in 1997.
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jimmy_Wales   (672 words)

  
 Talk:Wikipedia - SourceWatch
"Wales wrote on one occassion that anyone he has investigated who was critical of his administrators "turned out to be a complete and total ass." But he maintains polite and thoughtful users, even those prohibited from on-line discussions,are welcome to join mailing lists to comment on policy.
Wales' comment that "in nearly all practical cases that I've investigated, I always find that the complainer is a compelte and total ass".
The reason the total ass anecdote seems instructive to me is that Wales' appears to routinely blame those he deems trolls or unwanted users as the cause of problems, and fails to develop dialogue about systematic flaws in administrators approach.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Talk:Wikipedia   (1720 words)

  
 Q & A
WALES: Well, I‘m — from very early on when we started it, it was — I conceived of it as, you know, 2001 it was still kind of the tail end of the dot-com era and I wanted to try something and I thought at the time that it could be for profit.
WALES: Well, there are within the community there are various social processes so we have — you know, for the deletion there‘s a page — it used to be called votes for deletion but we just changed the name of it the other day and that‘s sort of in flux.
WALES: … we were talking about this — I was talking about the benevolent dictator model and I don‘t want to leave the impression that that‘s our model because what I was going to say is I don‘t feel it‘s appropriate for any one person to be the dictator of all human knowledge.
www.q-and-a.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1042   (8976 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Wales (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wales most commonly refers to the nation (technically principality) in the United Kingdom.
In the United States: Wales is a village and a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Rotherham (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with Derbyshire.
The size of Wales is a phrase that has become legendary for its use by the British news media to enable size comparisons of large areas to be made; by quoting the size of unfamiliar areas in terms of a familiar area (for example, twice the size of Wales), the...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wales-(disambiguation)   (476 words)

  
 Jimbo Wales on Wikipedia at Binary Bonsai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I can follow what's going on in the other rooms by reading the live transcripts given by the people in the other halls (and even help correct their spelling mistakes).
Here's a blog entry from a guy who was sitting next to me during Jim Wales' keynote.
Yeah, it was quite something to see up there on stage someone who is truly inspirational, not only in terms of output, but also in terms of attitudes.
binarybonsai.com /archives/2005/06/10/jimbo-wales-on-wikipedia   (565 words)

  
 Jimmy Wales - TheBestLinks.com - Jimbo Wales, Alabama, Ayn Rand, Australia, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jimbo Wales, Jimmy Wales, Alabama, Ayn Rand, Australia, August 7, Bomis...
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an Internet entrepreneur and a wiki enthusiast.
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama.
www.thebestlinks.com /Jimbo_Wales.html   (317 words)

  
 Jimmy Wales - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is the co-founder of Indopedia.
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama.
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www.indopedia.org /Jimmy_Wales.html   (349 words)

  
 Bomis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal, and it also sells erotic images over the Internet.
The majority owner of Bomis is Jimbo Wales, and it has never had venture capital.
Jimbo Wales has since started several other wiki-based projects, affiliated to neither Bomis nor Wikimedia.
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bomis   (419 words)

  
 Response to Jimbo Wales on Anarchy
What is wrong with Jimbo's argument as given is that it assumes that I (or my representative) must choose between the legal rules "existing gas companies can shut down new competitors" and "existing gas companies cannot shut down new competitors." If that were the choice, his argument would be correct.
Jimbo is describing an outcome, not a mechanism for producing it.
And I believe that if Jimbo checks the chapter (or possibly one of the next few), he will find explicit mention of the possibility that government might be legitimate, along with a brief comment (I think citing Spooner's argument) to the effect that I don't myself believe it is.
www.daviddfriedman.com /Libertarian/My_Posts/Me_to_Jimbo.html   (2226 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: [etech] Day 2 - Folksonomies panel
Participants: Jimbo Wales (wikipedia), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us) and Stewart Butterfield (flickr).
Jimbo: The tension is really more between the individual and the quality of the encyclopedia.
Jimbo: To create a large scale category system, a small group of experts can't even begin to compete with a large, open group of people.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/003799.html   (1132 words)

  
 Wikipedia Encyclopedia run by PornographerJim Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wales the pornographer refuses to remove the information that members of TOH are complaining about.
One complaint of TOH members is a link to the sex rag that is run by a group that caters to the Homosexual Under Ground in several major cities including Philadelphia.
Bomis is the typical porno scam, it entices you with either a Free or inexpensive ‘Temporary’ membership when in the small print it says you will be ‘automatically’ upgraded to a full membership.
www.247news.net /2004/20041211-wikipedia.shtml   (1078 words)

  
 Board of Trustees - Wikimedia Foundation
In the mid-1990s Wales started Bomis, a search portal focusing on aspects of pop culture, one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the Open Directory Project, and in 2004 founded Wikia, a wiki-style search engine.
In 1999, Wales had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded Nupedia, by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning 2 programmers to write software for it.
Michael Davis is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Chicago.
wikimediafoundation.org /wiki/Board_of_Trustees   (713 words)

  
 Wales (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
And in (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia:
The "Wales" has also become a unit of measurement, see (Click link for more info and facts about The size of Wales) The size of Wales.
Do not confuse with the animals, for which see (Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head) whales.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wa/Wales_(disambiguation).htm   (360 words)

  
 Fosdem 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jimmy Jimbo Wales - We do not believe that voting/rating mechanisms alone are powerful enough to do the job of real live human editors.
Jimmy Jimbo Wales - Yes, of course, and we are very supportive of the concept.
Jimmy Jimbo Wales - I think one of the most important innovations that we have is the "talk" page which is tied to every article.
www.fosdem.org /index/interviews/interviews_wales   (920 words)

  
 Blogger: Email Post to a Friend
Jimbo Wales, Chair, Founder and life member of the Wikimedia Foundation met with Larry Brin, Co-Founder & President, Products of Google, and Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology of Google in Stanford today to discuss hardware and bandwidth donations from Google to the foundation.
Today, in Standford, Jimbo met with Sergei Brin and Larry Page, who were extremely enthousiastic about the whole project.
"I don't remember the specifics (ask Jimbo for those), but Google has at least tentatively agreed to give us access to a certain number of dual zeon servers at one or more of their data centers and with unlimited bandwidth.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8074140&postID=110808259336428867   (331 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | From Aaan to ZZ Top
It is so full of ideas that it is hard for the average user to find reliable sources of information, let alone a friendly online community they feel they can trust.
Ten years ago people thought the web could be a form of open, democratic public sphere, an informal gathering place for people to exchange ideas and freely express themselves without coercion.
It is more about trusting that humans can respect someone else's opinion in a democratic public sphere, and that contributors will not ruin the fun for everyone else.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3624384.stm   (910 words)

  
 User:Jimbo Wales - Wikitravel
Jimmy Wales, born in an unkown suburb of the USA.
I moved to Florida in Febuary 1999, where I reside indefinitely, working and completing my studies, in addition to travelling extensively throughout the world.
Based on work by Evan Prodromou, Colin Jensen and Jimmy Wales and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.
wikitravel.org /en/User:Jimbo_Wales   (122 words)

  
 Meatball Wiki: MeatballServer
I would suggest that Meatball remain independent of Wales for a number of reasons, and would be willing to offer a degree of financial support in furtherance of that recommendation.
To be candid, Wales' server situation is, well, a disaster at the present time and has been for almost a year.
With MeatBall hosted by Wales, the idea that so much of the Wiki community could end up with a single point of failure, both hardware-wise and management-wise, does not sit well.
www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballServer   (2685 words)

  
 Plexus Institute
A wealthy options trader named Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales set out in 2001 to create a massive, free, on-line, community-built encyclopedia with an unprecedented assortment of human knowledge that would be available to every person on the planet.
The story, by Daniel H. Pink, also presents an interesting account of what he calls humankind’s age-old urge to “tame the jungle of knowledge and display it in a zoo of friendly facts.”First came the “one smart guy” model.
Wales explains in an interview with Nature writer Roxanne Khamsi, http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050314/full/050314-17.html that he initially founded Newpedia, a very academic, top-down project, but found that approach that didn’t work with volunteer contributors.
www.plexusinstitute.com /NewsEvents/News/show.cfm?id=121   (869 words)

  
 Comments on: Jimbo Wales on Wikipedia
Being at reboot7 poses an interesting challenge: there are lots of people i’ve been reading for years, but i can’t put a face on most of them for the life of me. Case in point: at the thursday meetup i stood next to Michael Heilemann and i...
I know a couple of people who've gotten rid of their 12" to get 15".
Johan: Although I wasn't there, it appears to be a 12" PowerBook, as the slot-loading drive is on the side (and not at the front, like the 15" and 17" models).
binarybonsai.com /archives/2005/06/10/jimbo-wales-on-wikipedia/feed   (787 words)

  
 Jimbo Wales on Wikipedia (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
Some things seem to be missing from the transcript, though, such as Wales’s boast that “we’re big enough now that I could call the New York Times and get on the front page” if someone like Microsoft ever went after them.
After the talk, I follow Wales to his car and chat with him a little.
It reminds me of that episode of Futurama when they get stranded on a planet and find the crew of Star Trek there, except that Scotty is nowhere to be found.
www.aaronsw.com /weblog/001597   (374 words)

  
 SPIEGEL Surfs the Web: Perplex City? Perplexity? Perplexed? So are we... - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Wikifounder Jimmy Wales believes in the power of the Wiki.>If you happen to be in Frankfurt am Main over the next few days, don't be shocked to see an unusual number of computer geeks among the city's staid banking-types.
Started by Ward Cunningham and Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales in 2001, the concept behind Wiki (which means "quick" in Hawaiian) was to provide a fast, free and user-edited encyclopedia.
Wales recently wrote in his blog "Like the great artist...
www.spiegel.de /international/0,1518,368449,00.html   (969 words)

  
 Is Wikipedia a Cult - JnanaBase
The NPOV has numerous detailed prescriptions and even says that some words are taboo, which members call "words to avoid".
Founder Jimbo Wales has explicitly stated that he wanted to make it the best free on-line encyclopedia in the world.
This is a very typical of abusive new religious movements because it will lead to ever increasing demands on members.
www.jnanabase.org /index.php/Is_Wikipedia_a_Cult   (1266 words)

  
 User:Jimbo Wales - Meta
This is where I keep my travel schedule.
My main user page is at en:User:Jimbo Wales
RSVP for lunch with Jimbo - 1pm - Bertucci's (near MIT)
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales   (276 words)

  
 User talk:JustNews - SourceWatch
And the blog, which stated it was run by Bomis, offered analysis by 13 commentators representing a common political theme, one of whom advocated political rape at a time when national dialogue was focused on the sexual abuse of wartime prisoners.
I can speak from personal experience with Wales and wikipedia, they are not nearly as interested in accuracy as they are in getting a polished product to package and sell to the highest (Disney) bidder.
The admins there run in packs, any time one of them finds something they want drowned off the pages, they alert the other admins who all stand in line to revert it one after another until they goad people into getting nasty with them.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=User_talk:JustNews   (530 words)

  
 Wikipediawatch
Jimbo also likes to muse on how the web can be used by a "Chinese dissident operating secretly from within China to rally pro-democracy, pro-freedom support overseas".
Well that dissident isn't going to have much luck with the US government, which gives most favored nation trading status to China despite the protests of American labor and the dissidents which he is apparently speak of.
Some people like Ed Poor say on their user page 'I haven't the slightest idea how I wound up getting sysop and developer rights, unless it's that I help out a lot and do what I'm told.
www.geocities.com /progressivepix/wikiwatch   (605 words)

  
 21C3.konferenzblogger.de Weblog - Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia Sociographics
Wales zieht die zweite Perspektive der ersten vor.
Das »emergent phenomenon« besteht aus tausenden von Usern, die sich alle nicht kennen und jeder einen kleinen Teil zum ganzen beitragen.
Wales entwirft eine bildhafte Typologie von Sozialtypen, Trolltypen, Artikel, Versicherungs- und Richtertypen, die sich gegenseitig beeinflussen.
21c3.konferenzblogger.de /12/27/wikipedia-sociographics.shtml   (605 words)

  
 eon » berkmania
Jimbo Wales — High Mountains Free Culture Will Climb
Jimbo lays out these ways in which free culture will express itself.
The force is that will draw us forward toward the expressions of free culture Jimbo describes is evolution determined by the architecture of cyberspace.
cyber.law.harvard.edu /nesson/blog/index.php?cat=5   (5875 words)

  
 HEM Editor’s Blog » 2005 » August
Right now Jimbo Wales is guest-blogging for Professor Lessig.
I haven’t yet found a blog for Jimbo, but if he starts one I’ll quickly add it to my growing collection.
Anyway, Jimmy Wales is using his space on Prof.
www.homeedmag.com /blogs/editorial?m=20050804   (758 words)

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