Esquire Tests Wiki Ethos
News The idea I had — which Jimmy [Wales, Wikipedia's founder] loved — is that I'd write a rough draft of the article and then Jimmy would put it on a site for the Wikipedia community to rewrite and edit," Jacobs wrote on the page introducing the...
[September 30, 2005, 16:45]
Wikipedia Vows To Improve Quality
News Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has set the Wikimedia Foundation's sights on improving the quality of the online encyclopedia and expanding "free culture" to new projects and countries. Wales delivered a keynote speech at the second annual...
[August 7, 2006, 9:20]
Wikia Search To Offer First Peek Next Week
News Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on 7 January, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales. In an email sent to the Wikia Search mailing list on 24 December, Wales wrote that he aims to make the initial...
[January 2, 2008, 12:54]
Wikipedia, Ubuntu Founders Back 'open Education'
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. Open education allows every person on earth to access and contribute to the vast pool of...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
Wikipedia Under Fire
News For Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, last week was a tough one. Also, Wales said, the entry was unusual in that it was posted by an anonymous user — most new articles are published by registered members, who are more likely to be held responsible for...
[December 5, 2005, 17:05]
Wikipedia Needs Help To Keep Growing
News In the opening talk at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels on Saturday, Wikipedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales urged the assembled audience of open source developers to get involved with the online encyclopaedia.
[March 1, 2005, 14:40]
Britannica Tops Wikipedia In Accuracy Stakes
News In response to situations like these and others in its history, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has always maintained that the service and its community are built around a self-policing and self-cleaning nature that is supposed to ensure its...
[December 16, 2005, 8:25]
Wikipedia: Fitting The Open Source Framework
News In fairness, though he rightly believes Wikipedia has some of the attributes of an.For more, click here.open source software project, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales doesn't like it when he sees someone describe it that way.
[December 13, 2005, 13:55]
Wikipedia Planning A DVD Version
News Jimmy Wales, the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that there is still a lot of work to be done before it can be put on disk, but he expects it to be available by the end of 2005.
[April 7, 2005, 17:05]
Wikipedia And Yahoo Announce Alliance
News Yahoo Search's support and vast user base will provide critical material aid and global reach for Wikipedia," Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, said in a statement. Wales said in a Yahoo blog that Yahoo's donation was "purely charitable...
[April 8, 2005, 10:05]
