[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales in the news

[Steven Walling]

>And how many of those 20+ people actually know him?

Well, one of them is Ward Cunningham, and there are several that have met
him several times at wiki conferences. But you don't have to meet the
founder of a non-profit personally to know he's doing more harm than good. I
don't have to meet Phil Knight to understand the affect he has on Nike.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 04/03/2008, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Putting the utter stupidity of discussing Jimbo's sex life at all aside,
> I
> >  will say that this episode rings true for me in one important sense. As
> an
> >  employee of a for-profit wiki, I've had the *entire* 20+ person staff
> agree
> >  unanimously that they love Wikipedia despite Jimmy Wales, emphasis on
> the
> >  "despite". Part of me recognizes that all this hullabaloo is a product
> of
> >  the media's inane focus on the cult of celebrity, but still...wouldn't
> we
> >  just be better off without him? My moral compass swings to a resounding
> Yes.
>
> And how many of those 20+ people actually know him?
>
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