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Then Wales clears his throat and says, “I have never told this before, but there is something else deeply personal that impacted me. My daughter Kira, suffered from a rare condition from birth that would have eventually killed her. She was a newborn baby with very rare lung incapacity with no known cure. A certain doctor in San Diego had found an untested cure that seemed to work on at least some children. But its outcome was not conclusively proven. So, parents who took their children had to make a call. The procedure required the child to be paralysed for a few moments and it was repeated a number of times before the child’s lungs began to function normally again.
Left with no other options, we agreed to give it a try. We watched as four times she was turned upside down, her entire system stopped and the lungs cleaned. At the end of it, she breathed and, thank God, has become perfectly normal.â€
He stops.
A teardrop.
Silence.
He wipes it off and begins haltingly.
“At the end of the procedure, I realized how precious the doctor’s knowledge was. It occurred to me that no one other than this doctor would ever know about this whole thing. There had to be a wayâ€. And that is how Wikipedia came about. First as Nupedia, that went nowhere. For three years, it struggled with the concept of a free, Internet-based encyclopedia with expert review of content, before Wales turned the idea on its head, leaving the choice of editing content to anyone who was willing to.
Left with no other options, we agreed to give it a try. We watched as four times she was turned upside down, her entire system stopped and the lungs cleaned. At the end of it, she breathed and, thank God, has become perfectly normal.â€
He stops.
A teardrop.
Silence.
He wipes it off and begins haltingly.
“At the end of the procedure, I realized how precious the doctor’s knowledge was. It occurred to me that no one other than this doctor would ever know about this whole thing. There had to be a wayâ€. And that is how Wikipedia came about. First as Nupedia, that went nowhere. For three years, it struggled with the concept of a free, Internet-based encyclopedia with expert review of content, before Wales turned the idea on its head, leaving the choice of editing content to anyone who was willing to.
Any idea what lung condition Kira suffered from, and (pray tell) what sort of condition could be cured by tipping someone upside-down and "paralyzing" them so that their lungs can drain? Milton, this sounds like a job for you!
Also, it looks like Jimmy isn't universally beloved in India the way we're led to believe:
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Bharati:
Aug 7, 2009
Nice story but knowing the kind of scam guy Jimbo is makes it hard for me to accept anything he says as truth. People should read Jimmy Wales own wikipedia entry before giving this shyster even 1 paisa.
Aug 7, 2009
Nice story but knowing the kind of scam guy Jimbo is makes it hard for me to accept anything he says as truth. People should read Jimmy Wales own wikipedia entry before giving this shyster even 1 paisa.