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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />What would you ask [b]Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales?[/b]
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Haaretz.com will be chatting with the internet guru at the annual Wikimania conference, this year taking place in Israel's northern city of Haifa. By Haaretz With Wikipedia's annual Wikimania conference, Wikimania, being held in Haifa this year, ...

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Gregory Kohs
I know you'll probably suppress this question, but I would ask why Jimmy Wales finds it acceptable to falsify information so often. He lied about being "the founder" or (even more ridiculously) "the sole founder" of Wikipedia. He said he "didn't have a problem" with Ryan "Essjay" Jordan deliberately lying to The New Yorker. He lied to a journalist, saying that Wikia Search was still "cranking along", when it would be shut down days later. Even days ago (see his Wikipedia Talk page history), he was hiding the uncomfortable evidence that he praised a UK Wikimedia representative as "brilliant!" for deliberately obfuscating information that a journalist requested. It's really shameful, and I wonder which media organization will finally be brave enough to call him out on it.
thekohser
Surprisingly, my comment on the newspaper's Facebook page remain undisturbed.
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