<img alt="" height="1" width="1">Wikipedia founder's next target: Google
Houston Chronicle, United States -58 minutes ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales built the fifth most-popular Web site by having volunteers post and edit encyclopedia entries. ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales built the fifth most-popular Web site by having volunteers post and edit encyclopedia entries.
Does anyone find that sentence irritating? Why?
I'm now inured to such puerile misrepresentations, mischaracterizations, and misattributions.
There's actually some disturbing news in that article:
a-) I like how they leave out his time at Bomis.com.
b-) Everybody remember, Chicago Options Associates was headed by Michael Davis -- who was one of five Board members of the Wikimedia Foundation, and is still the CFO of Wikia, Inc. He's the one who tried to welch out of an $800,000 obligation to a former would-be partner of COA. Just an all-around top-notch guy that the Illinois court system probably completely mistakenly once found to be in contempt.
c-) Why does Wikia always need to be so close in proximity to the Wikimedia Foundation? I mean, Wikimedia Foundation was set up in St. Pete, FL. Then Wikia, Inc. was founded there. Then Wikia moved to San Mateo, and not long after the WMF moved to San Francisco. Then just a few months later, Wikia plans a move to San Francisco, too?
WIKIA AND WIKIPEDIA ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONS. MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE...
Greg
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Wikia is moving to San Francisco, where most of its 50 employees live, from San Mateo, California, about 20 miles south, Wales said in the April 8 interview. The office will be around the corner from Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the non-profit parent of Wikipedia, which Wales started in 2001 after spending six years as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a trading firm.
a-) I like how they leave out his time at Bomis.com.
b-) Everybody remember, Chicago Options Associates was headed by Michael Davis -- who was one of five Board members of the Wikimedia Foundation, and is still the CFO of Wikia, Inc. He's the one who tried to welch out of an $800,000 obligation to a former would-be partner of COA. Just an all-around top-notch guy that the Illinois court system probably completely mistakenly once found to be in contempt.
c-) Why does Wikia always need to be so close in proximity to the Wikimedia Foundation? I mean, Wikimedia Foundation was set up in St. Pete, FL. Then Wikia, Inc. was founded there. Then Wikia moved to San Mateo, and not long after the WMF moved to San Francisco. Then just a few months later, Wikia plans a move to San Francisco, too?
WIKIA AND WIKIPEDIA ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONS. MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE...
Greg
To contact the reporter on this syndicated Bloomberg News story: Ari Levy in San Francisco, at alevy5@bloomberg.net
Seems like he might be Jewish, so please, if this erupts into another infamous Wikipedia Review discussion about Israeli cabals, and such, take it to another thread.
Greg
Seems like he might be Jewish, so please, if this erupts into another infamous Wikipedia Review discussion about Israeli cabals, and such, take it to another thread.
Greg
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