On 08/12/2007, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I fell ill with the flu and just could not pull myself together to make it to wikiwednesday, and on top of that I really didn't end up meeting with any wikipedians at all while I was in town. This is tragic.
For the WikiWednesday, Alison did a covering talk then Sue showed up right at the end of her bit to do a talk herself. It was pretty good :-) Talking about how Wikipedia/Wikimedia works, what a tiny and underresourced organisation WMF is and to give us money. I said "and please give us money" enough times, I think.
(Magnus Manske came down from Cambridge and I found out why MediaWiki's written in PHP. See, Nupedia was written in PHP, Magnus learnt PHP to patch the code, UseMod was getting limiting so Magnus wrote a new wiki script to learn PHP in ... *shudder* Like building a skyscraper from Lego and gaffer tape. And now we live in it.)
- d.