Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia and self-described libertarian. Jimmy Wales claims to be an objectivist who follows the philosophy of Friedrich Hayek and atheist Ayn Rand. His favorite book is Rand's Atlas Shrugged.[1] Wales told an interviewer in Reason magazine, "One can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek," [2] however there is thin evidence for this given the radical leftist agenda of Wales close confidants in control of Wikipedia.[3] Hayek wrote in Road to Serfdom, "By the time Hitler came to power, liberalism was dead in Germany. And it was socialism that had killed it;"[4] editors trying to make this point in Wikipedia are routinely profiled, stalked, harassed, slandered, and banned.
Jimmy Wales became a millionaire by trading commodity options; before funding Wikipedia, he funded Bomis Inc. in 1996, an online pornography portal.[5] Besides funding the non-profit Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales also funded the for-profit Wikia, a company that provides wiki services for businesses and organizations.
Wales was caught editing his own profile on Wikipedia in a bit of a scandal in an effort to downplay Larry Sanger's role in the company and distance himself from his Bomis past.[6]
Controversy
In early October 2005, former Robert F. Kennedy aide and retired journalist John Seigenthaler Sr. contacted Wales about false and libelous information in his Wikipedia biographical entry. Essjay got the call to deal with the situation.[7] On December 1, 2005 Wales told Editor & Publisher magazine, the nation’s oldest trade journal serving the newspaper industry regarding Daniel Brandt,
| “ | I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all... I find it hard to take him very seriously ...[8] | ” |
| “ | we are very, very responsive to complaints and concerns.[12] | ” |
Essjay was entrusted with oversight responsibilities in the wake of the Seigenthaler scandal and wrote to a professor to persuade her to allow students to cite Wikipedia as a "reliable source,"
| “ | It is never the case that known incorrect information is allowed to remain in Wikipedia; we strive to provide a resource that is both accurate and expansive. As we approach one million articles (far more than any other encyclopedia could ever hope to attain) on the English Wikipedia alone (there are hundreds of thousands of articles in the projects that make up the Wikimedia Foundation in dozens of different languages), we prove ourselves as a resource like none ever known before. | ” |
The derogatory smears against Brandt, self-cited to a certifiably "extremist source" which "should never be used" remained in Brandt's biography for one and half years, with Jimbo Wales and the WikiMedia Foundations full knowledge.
References
- ↑ Interview with Jimmy Wales conducted by Brian Lamb, C-SPAN Transcript, September 25, 2005.
- ↑ Wikipedia and Beyond, Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reasononline.com, June 2007.
- ↑ Davis, Jim. "Left in Control of Wikipedia", NewsMax, May 14, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-04.
- ↑ Road to Serfdom, Friedrich A. Hayek, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945, pg. 36.
- ↑ http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/12/69880
- ↑ Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio Wired. Accessed 17 March 2008
- ↑ User:Essjay/Letter. Retrieved from WikiTruth, November 3, 2007.
- ↑ Wikipedia Founder, Readers Respond to Seigenthaler Article, Jay DeFoore, Editor & Publisher, December 01, 2005.
- ↑ http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=5641&pid=22336&mode=threaded&show=&st=0&#entry22336
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&oldid=55132392
- ↑ Wikipedia#Impugning critics, Conservapedia.com
- ↑ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/05/lol.02.html
External Links
Jimmy Wales' Blog (this blog was last updated Feb. 16, 2007)
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