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Jimmy Wales plans "quieter life"
"Planning a quieter life," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Twittered on Sunday. Good luck with that, Jimbo! Even Wales realized that was impossible: He later backpedaled on the request.
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Jimmy Wales bores crowd with stump speech in Norway
"Yesterday we went to see Jimmy Wales speak at the Nobel Peace Prize Center during the seminar 'How Free is the Internet.' Jimbo was less controversial than his wikipedia page and his jokes were not funny." — Aeron Bergman and Alejandra...
Jimmy Wales's founding fib
newVideoPlayer("Wales_cofounder_check.flv", 463, 387,"");Who founded Wikipedia? Jimmy Wales likes to tell third-world denizens he did. Here's a clip from IJsbrand van Veelen's new documentary The Truth According To Wikipedia featuring Wikipedia...
Jimmy Wales flees Facebook
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been leaving Facebook groups at a prodigious rate over the past few days. Is it related to his recent relationship troubles or is he just cleaning house? Check out the screenshots below to see just how many groups...
Jimmy Wales: "It's like being a regular rock star, except there's no sex"
newVideoPlayer("Jimmy_Wales_Internet_rockstar.flv", 463, 387,"");"What's it like to be a famous guy on the Web?" Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell asked Jimmy Wales in an interview last year. "Being an Internet rock star is like being a regular rock...
Jimmy Wales drops off the Time 100 list again
Safe to say that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's plan to take Canadian journalist Rachel Marsden to the Time 100 party are definitely off. Not only have Wales and Marsden broken up, but Time has, as we predicted, declined to return Wales to its...
How Jimmy Wales's Facebook profile gets him laid
On Facebook, Jimmy Wales has just one question for you: Are you interested? If you're cute and female, he is. We're told Wales will friend just about anyone who fits that description. Since his breakup with Canadian journalist Rachel Marsden...
Wiki quickie has Jimmy Wales moving to New York
Why did Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales suggest Wikipedia move from Florida to New York last fall? His for-profit startup, Wikia, is based on the Peninsula; siting Wikipedia's nonprofit foundation across the country made little sense. In light of...
How MySpace gets Jimmy Wales laid
Jimmy Wales should quit Wikipedia — but please, not the rest of the Internet. He's far too entertaining.On Jimmy Wales's MySpace page, he lists himself as "married" and a "proud parent" who's "looking to meet Wikipedian MySpacers." His...
Jimmy Wales isn't American Express's pitchman, he's its steely-eyed visionary
For MarketWatch readers, American Express wants to brand itself as company that understands how to "drive growth through technology." And so the the credit card company presents the Open forum, featuring Internet visionary Jimbo Wales and his...
Jimbo's bimbos a brainiac pack
We keep hearing new rumors about women Jimmy Wales has been involved with. But why tell you? Some Wales critics say it's not the sex, it's the money. But it's hard to separate the two when charges fly that Wales took a girlfriend on trips paid for...
Four hot pics of Wikipedia guy's girlfriend
Jimmy Wales can't get enough of Rachel Marsden, the girlfriend he met on Wikipedia. Here's a shot of her pouting for the camera. Three more after the jump.
Did Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia boss make out in Amsterdam?
What is it about Jimmy Wales? The founder of Wikipedia has a thing for brainy women, and a penchant for mixing business and pleasure. But the latest rumor I've heard is mind-blowing: That Wales had a brief affair with Sue Gardner, the executive...
Jimmy Wales's 3 sins
You probably don't care who Wikipedia's chair emeritus Jimbo Wales went to bed with, or what his official relationship to the site is now. What matters is that he's Mr. Wikipedia to thousands of volunteers who contribute to mankind's definitive...
World Economic Forum organizers defend womanizing Randian Jimmy Wales as conference chair
Why is Jimmy Wales, the do-little founder of Wikipedia, cochair the annual World Economic Forum on the Middle East? The event is the "foremost global gathering of political, business and cultural leaders," according to the organizers. Wales was...
Wikipedia chair misleads reporter to protect junket junkie Jimmy Wales
Did Jimmy Wales misuse funds from the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit he set up in 2003 to oversee Wikipedia? Publicly, the foundation's leaders are saying no. Privately, foundation chair Florence Devouard has alternately bragged about how she's...
Michael Arrington places Jimmy Wales on suicide watch
Michael Arrington, a fragile soul, imagines the rest of the Valley is as weak-willed as he is. Without mentioning Jimmy Wales by name, Arrington distraughtly lays out his fears that Valleywag will drive him to kill himself. How little you know,...
Jimmy Wales wanted New York, not San Francisco, for HQ
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells us our tipster got it wrong when suggesting the Wikipedia foundation moved to San Francisco in order to snuggle up to Roger McNamee, one of the moneymen at Elevation Partners. Our anonymous source also suggested...
Jason Calacanis v. Jimmy Wales
James "Jimmy" Wales, founder of the non-profit, online encyclopedia Wikipedia and not yet developed, commercial search engine Wikia, exchanged barbs with Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc. and the recent human search engine Mahalo, over the...
Wales: Running Wikipedia is "a very high touch business, so to speak"
newVideoPlayer("Wales_very_high_touch.flv", 463, 387,""); "What kind of experience have you had at Wikipedia in dealing with individuals? Has that paid off for you?" interviewer Seth Godin asks Jimmy Wales, the founder of the world's most thorough...
Charge: Wikipedia flew Wales girlfriend on donors' dime
Elisabeth Bauer was Jimmy Wales's first big perk as lord and master of Wikipedia. As with Rachel Marsden, the Canadian journalist at the root of Wales's recent woes, Wales and Bauer struck up a friendship online, over Wikipedia. And people are now...
Wikipedians cover up for Jimmy Wales
"The Wikipedia effort is not personality-driven," claims a commenter who insists that "nobody cares" about Jimmy Wales's behavior. The cult of personality in action: Journalist Cyrus Farivar — a regular contributor to NPR, The Economist,...
Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales dumps girlfriend on Wikipedia
This is surely a first: Breaking up with a girlfriend via Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales, the creator of the world's best collection of Outkast lyrics, has announced in a statement on the website that he's no longer seeing Rachel Marsden, the saucy...
Wales accused of trading edits for donations
A post at AntiSocialMedia.net that's best quoted verbatim:According to [former Novell chief scientist Jeff] Merkey, in 2006, Wales told him that in exchange for a substantial donation, Wales could use his influence to make Merkey's article more...
Jimmy Wales to topple Facebook by slinging his own social web?
Not even Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales can escape Facebook fever. He showed off a few screenshots from Wikia's open-source search project while addressing a small gathering in South Africa. What have we here? A Jimmy Wales profile page that looks...
Wikiprofits on Wales's mind?
A tipster is telling us we got it right on why founder Jimmy Wales is moving Wikipedia to San Francisco: dollar bills. Tall stacks of them. Specifically, Wales is looking to tap the deep pockets of Wikipedia benefactor Roger McNamee of Elevation...
How Wikipedia got Jimmy Wales laid
Men, if you want to win over a girl, don't post ads on Craigslist. Instead, help her clean up her Wikipedia page! It sure worked for Jimmy Wales. The twice-married, now-divorcing Internet stud met his current girlfriend Rachel Marsden through the...
Jimmy Wales to lecture teenage girls on leadership
This Saturday, the Castilleja School, an all-girls' college-prep academy in Palo Alto, has invited Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, Google fashionista Marissa Mayer, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to a symposium on leadership. What, exactly, does...
While Wikipedia burns, Jimmy Wales and women in bikinis save "world on fire"
We were right: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales really did skip off to Richard Branson's Caribbean getaway in early March, even as a scandal unfolded over his governance of the world's most comprehensive list of gay animals. The powwow on Necker...
