Jimmy Wales
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Dancing with Jimmy Wales in 'Second Life'
Insight Wikipedia's founder visits CNET's virtual theater to talk about the free, open encyclopedia, his for-profit company and more.
Wikipedia today, Citizendium tomorrow
Insight Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger wants to create a scholarly wiki with a more credible pedigree.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Web 2.0
Wikipedia campaign raises over US$6.2M
News Fund raising drive by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has led to over 125,000 people making donations to the online community-generated encyclopaedia.
Tags: Web sites, Internet, Internet advertising, Open-source Software, Advertisement, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Server, software, founder
Wikimedia Foundation: Jimmy Wales 'absolutely' not out
News Valleywag reported Saturday that the Wikipedia founder was out at the foundation that runs the Web-based encyclopedia. But the foundation strongly disputes it.
Tags: Web sites, Best strategies, Business plans, Jimmy, RFC, e-mail, job, News.com, founder, CNET Networks Inc.
Hunch: The search for better search
News Community question-and-answer sites from Microsoft, Google and others have sputtered. New site by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake aims to refine the model.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Internet advertising, Site, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Laptop Computer, Flickr, decision-making
Wikipedia founder coolish on citizen journalism
Blogs It seems Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn't so crazy about citizen journalism. While this might sound highly ironic...
Wikipedia founder criticizes Thai Web censorship
News Jimmy Wales said that Internet censorship is one of Thailand's biggest problems and the system needs to be reexamined in the best interests of the country.
Wikia search goes live, fails to find a match
News An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been negative.
Tags: Web services, Search, Data services
Last week in wikis
News Wikipedia has come under fire for recent inaccuracies, raising ethical and legal questions.
Tags: Legal
Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'
News Linux and other open-source software should provide the model for development and distribution of educational materials, according to Ubuntu.
Tags: Open source, Linux
Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica
News The journal Nature says the open-access encyclopedia is about as accurate as the old standby.
Tags: Web sites
Wikipedia's open-source label conundrum
News The open-source label doesn't really fit Wikipedia. "Free-for-all," in fact, may be a better match.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'
News Digital Universe, a new online information service launching in early 2006, aims to build on the model of Wikipedia.
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Tags: Open Source, Article, online help, Encarta.com, Wikipedia Article, software, Wikipedia
Wikia Search launches the hackable search engine
News Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' latest experiment: wiki-style search results. If you do a search on the engine and don't like the results, you'll be able to change them--for everybody.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Search Engine, social networking, co-founder, Search Result, Wikia Inc., network, founder
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