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Interview with Jimbo Wales

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-stuff-about-wiki-you-rarely-hear dept.

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."

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  1. edit this page... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  2. Re:Wikinews? What's the point? by dubl-u · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are these people just repackaging news from the mainstream news sources?

    I ask the same thing about my local paper every time I pick it up.