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Ask Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales About Online Collaboration

Posted by Roblimo on from the 90.1-million-words-and-still-growing dept.

Back in 2001 we did a "double" Slashdot Interview with Michael Hart of Project Gutenberg and Jimmy Wales of the then-brand-new Nupedia, which has since become the amazingly useful Wikipedia. This is a perfect time to catch up with Jimbo (as friends call him), and learn not only how he managed to make Wikipedia work and grow so well, but what we can do to help -- and what future plans he has for this outstanding Web resource. (10 of your highest-moderated questions will be sent to Jimbo by email. We'll post his answers as soon as we get them back.)

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  1. Collaborative Media Foundation by downbad · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now that you're the new posterboy for collaborative media, are you going to pull a "Rusty Foster" and run away with all of the money Wikipedia's users have donated to the cause?

  2. Re:How to stop the Cabal by Snowspinner · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's funny is that by the time you'd posted that, the cabal section was taken out and replaced with a more general section about criticisms of how Wikipedia functions and is run that were not directed towards any of the procedures in place to change that.

    Jeez, I remember when you trolls were at least fast, if not intelligent.

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