[Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales in the news

SlimVirgin slimvirgin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 06:36:07 UTC 2008


On 3/6/08, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>  On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:58 AM, <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  > 2. Jimmy made one donation, and one donation only, to the Foundation and
>  > that was in or around June 2003, when the Foundation was formed.It was
>  > approximately $2,500, deposited to open the first bank account. The exact
>  > amount  is
>  > easy to find, since it is the first recorded donation in the books.
>
>  Here's a list of the things that Jimmy donated that day. I bolded what I
>  consider to be the most valuable part of his donation - all work that any
>  Bomis employee had ever done on the projects.
>
>  https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html

There are also the hundreds of unpaid man hours Jimbo has put into the
project. Not to mention that if he'd retained ownership of Wikipedia,
he might now be worth an absolute fortune.

Sarah



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