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Interview with Jimbo Wales
xandroid writes to tell us that Wikinews has an interesting interview with Jimbo Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation. From the interview: "The [Wikinews] project is a bit over a year old, with the English and Deutsch editions opening their sites officially the first week of December, 2004. Since then the project has produced more than 13 000 articles in 16 languages, with recently created editions in Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese. The project has not been without its detractors, and the questions asked of Mr. Wales reflected some of the most common criticisms."
Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that Wikinews has a depressing interview with Jimbo Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation. Mr. Wales had just returned from prison. From the interview: "The [Wikinews] project is a bit over a month old, with the English and Deutsch editions opening their sites officially the first week of December, 2005. Since then the project has produced more than 13 articles in 2 languages, with recently created editions in Pig Latin, and Klingon. The project has been a miserable failure, and the questions asked of Mr. Wales reflected some of the most common criticisms. At one point in the interview, Mr. Wales began quoting paragraphs from 1960's bicycle repair manuals and offered his interviewers a selection of delicious sausage. A quick dose of medication returned him to his usually coherent self."
What's the write spelling again?
I first read that as 'Interview with Jumbo Whales'
As long as they have the Klingon language edition, I will be a happy tha'rav'.
Some joker has gone and protected the interview page (even for registered users). What's the point of it being on a wiki if I can't be bold and edit Jimbo Wales' answers to reflect a more neutral point of view?
Wiki changes that. I've seen articles with definite left-bias, similar to what I'd expect from any geek forum. With Wikis gaining ground (google searches seem attracted to them), will there be a push to put pressure on the wiki maintainers?
Nah. If the whole wiki-thing really takes off, the money will start to come into it big time, and they'll shift to the right on their own. The early users will wail "Sell Out!," the founders will all cash in, write books, and get knighted.
Meanwhile, some punk in the East Village, his MP3-player cranked to '11' jamming old Velvet Underground is already putting the finishing touches on The Next Big Thing, lighting up his last clove ciggy, pledging to himself that he will Always Be True and that his work will never be used for Evil.
Man, I love this stuff...
Hey, I'm 16, and I still contribute to it.
:P
I'm 17, and i contribute somewhat regularly as well. I find Wikipedia an incredibly extensive ocean of just... stuff. There's been many a time when i get sidetracked from homework and other projects that i'm working on with Wikipedia; i click an interesting-looking link and it takes me at least a half-hour to get back on task because i always find another link to click on the article i just went to. It's really annoying.
It would be a bit tricky for history to be written by those who did not survive.