My comment, for as long as it will last:
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GregoryKohs
10 November 2010 1:22AM
Jemima, you've fallen for the Big Liar again, haven't you?
Jimbo Wales couldn't have "started Wikipedia in 1996", because he didn't have anyone spoon-feed him the idea, like Dr. Larry Sanger did in January 2001. Sanger came to Wales with the request to install wiki software on the Bomis server, to open a crowdsourced encyclopedia feeder. Sanger named the new project "Wikipedia". Sanger issued the first public call for participation. And Sanger toiled for the first year as the project's "editor in chief", if one could say that, fashioning many of the key rules and guidelines that still govern Wikipedia. Wales spent about 60 minutes installing the wiki freeware, and he signed Sanger's Bomis paycheck. To call Wales even a co-founder of Wikipedia is generous. To call him "founder" is simply outlandish and should be retracted. Even Wikipedia's article about the origin of Wikipedia makes it clear that Wales is merely a co-founder who later dreamt that he founded it alone.
About the same could be said of Wales' Wikia project. That, too, was co-founded along with Angela Beesley, because Jimmy really wouldn't have known the first thing about getting a new wiki farm started on his lonesome.
It appears that the only truthful thing you published was "Wikia, the for-profit wing of Wikipedia", but then you self-reverted that on the basis of one cry-baby secretary of Wikimedia UK. Why should it surprise me that you'd modify your article so that it pleases whichever Wikimedia crony who might complain?
If you and your readers are interested in learning about the REAL Wikia that Jimmy Wales desperately hopes you don't learn about, I would suggest this site.
10 November 2010 1:22AM
Jemima, you've fallen for the Big Liar again, haven't you?
Jimbo Wales couldn't have "started Wikipedia in 1996", because he didn't have anyone spoon-feed him the idea, like Dr. Larry Sanger did in January 2001. Sanger came to Wales with the request to install wiki software on the Bomis server, to open a crowdsourced encyclopedia feeder. Sanger named the new project "Wikipedia". Sanger issued the first public call for participation. And Sanger toiled for the first year as the project's "editor in chief", if one could say that, fashioning many of the key rules and guidelines that still govern Wikipedia. Wales spent about 60 minutes installing the wiki freeware, and he signed Sanger's Bomis paycheck. To call Wales even a co-founder of Wikipedia is generous. To call him "founder" is simply outlandish and should be retracted. Even Wikipedia's article about the origin of Wikipedia makes it clear that Wales is merely a co-founder who later dreamt that he founded it alone.
About the same could be said of Wales' Wikia project. That, too, was co-founded along with Angela Beesley, because Jimmy really wouldn't have known the first thing about getting a new wiki farm started on his lonesome.
It appears that the only truthful thing you published was "Wikia, the for-profit wing of Wikipedia", but then you self-reverted that on the basis of one cry-baby secretary of Wikimedia UK. Why should it surprise me that you'd modify your article so that it pleases whichever Wikimedia crony who might complain?
If you and your readers are interested in learning about the REAL Wikia that Jimmy Wales desperately hopes you don't learn about, I would suggest this site.