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Jimmy Wales's estranged wife watches over his Wikia failure

Believers in the wisdom of crowds will tell you that wikis, those collections of anyone-can-edit Web pages, are resistant to vandalism. Not so Jimmy Wales's Wikia Search, an attempt to build a search engine along wiki lines, which he is once again touting, this time to Forbes. The search results for "Jimmy Wales" currently display a header with a picture of a smiling woman. Who is she, and what does she tell us about Wikia Search? More »

9:40 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,920 views, 99 comments

Latest by n/a: Only one more after this one to 100! Who has 100? more »

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Jimmy Wales takes his Wikipedia magic show to New York City

For a province of California, Silicon Valley can be strangely puritan at times. That made it an uncomfortable locale for libertine Libertarian Jimmy Wales, the less-than-saintly founder of Wikipedia. Wales told ex-lover Rachel Marsden, the Canadian controversialist, that he wanted to move to New York to be closer to her. Their affair is over — ended, fittingly, via a posting on Wikipedia — but Wales has relocated to New York all the same. The likely reason has to do with work, or the appearance of work. Although Wikipedia's nonprofit parent, the Wikimedia Foundation, is located in San Francisco, and his ostensible employer, for-profit wiki venture Wikia, has itsheadquarters in a suburb to the south of the city, Wales is charged with running a search-engine project for Wikia which is based in New York. More »

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11:40 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,201 views, 42 comments

Latest by Rachel Marsden: @gitahne-o: Damn straight. more »