[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales on /The Chaser's War on Everything/

[David Gerard]

On 05/05/07, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

> Surprised no other Aussie has mentioned this one.  By "Aussie" I mean,
> of course, Stephen Bain, who falls into the core demographic and almost
> certainly watches the programme.
> /The Chaser's War on Everything/ last Wednesday/Friday included a press
> conference with Jimmy Wales, who quite possibly didn't even know who
> they were.  Pretty standard: "There are now 1.7m articles on English
> Wikipedia.  How did you manage to write them all?" and "How do you feel
> about the fact that I changed your article this morning to [something, I
> forget what]?"  However, /Chaser/ is always worth watching.  I thought
> Jimbo reacted quite well to the /Chaser/'s lad, too.  His answer to the
> articles question: "A lot of coffee."


Embedded in:

http://blog.valuewiki.com/2007/05/03/video-from-australian-jimmy-wales-prank/


- d.