PHOTO CAPTION: Jimmy Wales in London last week. The American plans to make the city his home

I wonder if Kira will relocate?

If she isn't, it's probably safe to assume that he'll have all sorts of important speeches to give on behalf of the WMF back in Florida to justify his travel expenses.

It seems strange that the man behind a concept that gives everyone the chance to contribute to a unique knowledge resource should be in awe of a chamber that is still derided for being undemocratic and anachronistic.

Jimmy Wales in the usual uncritical interview spouts the usual stuff, how it all works, blah, blah. Didn't bother to read in detail.

However, some of the standard criticisms have hit home and are defended, and the other co-founder gets full attribution, along with eBay mentions.

Where Wikipedia can improve, he admits, is in the diversity of its contributors. Around 100,000 volunteers are involved in editing on at least a monthly basis, allowing the site to operate with only a tiny staff of around 45. But editors are “over 80 per cent male and tech-savvy”, he says, meaning that subjects such as “sociology or romantic poetry” can be neglected. “Whatever 26-year-old tech geek males are interested in we do a very good job on. [But] things that in other fields we really have a hard time with, because when we get somebody who knows about Keats, we usually have to ban them quickly for being drama queens."

Not that Wales wants everyone to be an editor. “We’ve never been about participation for participation’s sake. We are trying to build an encyclopaedia." So what about the moto that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anybody can edit? "Well, that's still true," admits Wales, "but at the same time, we hope they won't."

Wales believes the quality of articles has markedly improved. This is partly due to protection measures recently introduced for the most sensitive articles (such as the biography of George W Bush), where all changes are subject to a delay so that they can be reviewed by an established Wikipedia editor. “Where we’ve gotten to now is fairness. Not that Wikipedia wasn't fair before, when I opposed this whole protection thing. But it's now that-much-more fair. Wikipedia's always fair whatever I decide to do with it, because I'm just a fairness-oriented kid of guy," says Wales.

His focus is moving to the east, specifically to India where in the next six months Wikipedia will open its first office outside of America, probably in Mumbai or Bangalore. Increasing the number of articles in Indian languages is “really key”, he says. “We have 50,000 articles in Hindi and tens of thousands in other languages, so we already have active communities there but we are still very far behind the European languages. So that's why we are going to India. It's not that they speak English and work cheaply. No." (Here Wales waggles his head in Indian fashion). "It's that they do speak Hindi, and even I don't have to tell your good self that we need very many more Hindi articles straightaway."

I wonder if Kira will relocate?

“Whatever 26-year-old tech geek males are interested in we do a very good job on. [But] things that in other fields we really have a hard time with, because when we get somebody who knows about Keats, we usually have to ban them quickly for being drama queens."

"has a girlfriend with a home in London"

"Kira, this is your London mommy. I want you to listen to her and be mindful, because your Florida mommy is 4,411 miles away."

I do wonder what the attraction is to living in London for someone like Jimbo.

I do wonder what the attraction is to living in London for someone like Jimbo. Is it that he has been to a few good parties so he thinks it's a great life. Aside from the nightlife, London doesn't have a lot of charm - fun to visit, even frequently, but to settle down in when you can earn a living elsewhere? Odd. I think the charm of Britain is in its countryside - it simply does not do cities well at all.

London is chock full of celebrities, potentates, and other Significant Persons. San Francisco wasn't bad for this, but London beats the socks off it in that regard.

Also, there are more castles in the general vicinity of London than most other places in the world. And Jimbo has always wanted to own a castle.

London is chock full of celebrities, potentates, and other Significant Persons. San Francisco wasn't bad for this, but London beats the socks off it in that regard.

Also, there are more castles in the general vicinity of London than most other places in the world. And Jimbo has always wanted to own a castle.

"has a girlfriend with a home in London"

The only castle for residence near London is Windsor

Hadleigh Castle is a fixer-upper and not that far away.

Hadleigh Castle is a fixer-upper and not that far away.

With a few of his reliable sources, he might be able to blag his way in to a grace and favour home as a cocksucker.

I wonder if Kira will relocate?

The most important message...

is that we have absolutely nothing to do with WikiLeaks

I wish they were called Open Leaks.

After working as a futures trader, Jimbo set up Bomis, a male-oriented dot-com business focusing on “babes”

notes that “if you become an administrator in Wikipedia, you are pretty much in for life as long as you behave yourself”

constitutional monarch where I have certain reserved powers