“Wikipedia is fundamentally a charitable endeavor to create and distribute a quality free encyclopedia to every single person on the planet. And within our community there’s a very strong spirit that we should be concerned about quality, that we’re trying to conserve a culture that has a positive, helpful role for people and learning. It’s a fairly defined project as far as public interest,” he said in a May 2009 online interview with the Paley Center for Media.

Need I say more?



According to the Dub-P, Stevenson University was founded in Stevenson, Maryland as Villa Julie College in 1947 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as a one-year school training women to become medical secretaries. The College was named for Saint Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame.

Sounds like Jimbo will fit in nicely, what with all the Catholic schoolgirls running around.

“To him, altruism was evil,” remembers [his first wife] Pam, who says that Wales therefore discouraged her from pursuing a nursing degree when they were married. “His whole ‘Mr. Save the World’ is so contrary to what he said every day for seven years.”

* Q: What is the percentage of male to female students?
* A: Currently, 35% of our student body is a male, 65% is female.

He is insane ... of course, he gets paid exceeding well paid to be insane so I suppose there is no incentive to stick to reality and, like any other cult leader, he has to recruit more young people to sustain his position power and income.

His insanity is not the point---insane people are commonplace. The point is, what magical fairy dust does he possess that causes thousands of even-more-insane people to dedicate their lives to his half-though-out project?

Way to go, Jimbo!

Many of the colleges in Maryland are that way - they were once female universities that went coed.

A veritable land of Marys, you say?

For those in the Facebook set.

Is Virginia the land of virgins?

Virginia's for Lovers™, so if it's full of virgins that won't last long. Srsly, you do know how the state got its name, no?

Following Groucho, what color is the whitehouse? Who's buried in Grant's tomb? What animal are the canary islands named after? Where was India ink invented? And what about French fries?

Which links to pics of the annual Stevenson dorm quad pillow fight.
I find it difficult to take Stevenson seriously as an institution of higher learning,
after seeing that.

Hmph. Someone with access to the "delete" button on the Stevenson Facebook page elected to 86 my comment about Wales being selected as the commencement speaker.

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Talking about this? I still see it.

NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Semifinal game against Salisbury is Sunday at 1pm - hope to see you there. Stevenson ended there 15 year CAC Championship run last month. Come support the team as they end Salisbury's Championship bid for the second year in a row.

Stevenson hasn't been run by the Sisters for quite a long time. Their current board is more Jewish than Catholic.

I live right down the road from there, mind you. My cousin also attends the school along with other stuff. It has a nice campus, but Greenspring Valley is an interesting place - million dollar homes and horrible cross traffic.

By the way, if Jimbo wants to stop by, he is more than welcome. : )

I see that Wales also taught you how to execute the “Big Lie”, taking credit for doing something that someone else actually did.

Do you know who actually brought the idea of the wiki software and architecture to the Nupedia (check your spelling, Graduate) encyclopedia? Dr. Larry Sanger.

Do you know who actually named the new feeder project “Wikipedia”? Dr. Larry Sanger.

Do you know who issued the first invitation for people to come help build Wikipedia? Dr. Larry Sanger.

Do you know who spent most of the time in Wikipedia’s first year, ironing out the kinks and laying down the key guidelines and policies that still govern Wikipedia today? Dr. Larry Sanger.

Do you know about the only person in the world who thinks that “Honorary Dr.” Jimmy Wales was “the founder” of Wikipedia? Apparently, it’s you, and (of course) the liar Jimmy Wales.

Here’s a “dumb idea” for you — don’t tolerate people who take full credit for the hard work of others.

Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

No one - people are not buried in a tomb.

Actually, almost no one visits it anymore, which makes it kind of sad.

I think Mrs. Grant is in the tomb, too.

It looks like the first coverage of Jimbo's big speech (and honorary doctorate degree!) at Stevenson University comes in the form of a blog written by a now-graduated alumnus. Not only do we have another True Believer on our hands, but also an excellent photographer — seriously, that picture of Jimbo at the podium is Wikimedia Commons-ready, is it not?!

I left a comment this morning, but it appears to have been rejected, so I'll leave it here …

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