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CNBC's Becky Quick joins long line of women emailing Jimmy Wales

Call it a strange attraction: Women whose Wikipedia entries aren't to their liking just can't seem to resist taking their case to the site's stubbly cofounder, Jimmy Wales. Even CNBC's Becky Quick struck up a correspondence, she admits in this clip. Unlike Canadian television commentator Rachel Marsden, whose call for help turned into a sexual fling, Quick is married.

4:40 PM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,222 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: @Rachel Marsden: :) I see what you mean - a match made in heaven. Although I still think it would more »

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How Jimmy Wales gets the ladies

We've always wondered how a schlubby guy like Jimmy Wales sees so much action. It can't be the I-founded-Wikipedia-can-I-edit-your-page pickup lines — for every Rachel Marsden he lands with those, one thinks Wales would get 10 drinks in the face. At last, we've gotten a scientific explanation: It's the stubble. A recent study found women prefer mates with stubbly cheeks to smooth faces or full beards. (Thank you, Don Johnson.) And according to Wales's comprehensive compendium of facial hair stylings, Wales himself is the iconic paragon of stubble. (Photo by EvgenyGenkin)

5:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,912 views, 24 comments

Latest by Troll_2.0: Jimbo looks like a pussy more »

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You mean this isn't the Facebook prom?

Despite not making the cut for this year's Time 100, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales showed up at the magazine's party anyway. (Past honorees are reinvited to the party automatically.) Even more surprising: On his arm was Andrea Weckerle, the freelance public-relations professional long rumored to have been smitten with Wales. If this photo is an indication, her affections are less unrequited than has been said. More »

4:00 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Owen Thomas
3,622 views, 70 comments

Latest by n/a: @Wikipedophile: I've met Weckerle. She's what some would call "special needs". Not too bright. 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
1,219 views, 42 comments

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

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Jimmy Wales hires bodyguard for New York event

Invited to speak about "the future of the Internet" at New York University, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales instead spent the session dwelling on his smartphone's inbox. Why was the muse for the world's most exhaustive list of Simpsons episodes so distracted? Likely for the same reason he hired a personal security guard for the event: would-be paramour Andrea Weckerle. We're told that Weckerle, a PR consultant previously linked to Wales, has such a crush on Wales — unrequited — that she flew cross-country for the event, and told friends she was sharing a hotel room with Wales for a supposed tryst. More »

12:20 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,359 views, 35 comments

Latest by colonelpanic: Of course, now ... ever quick to respond, Marsden's now posted specifically to about a dozen OTHER articles. Oh more »

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Jimmy Wales edited Julia Allison's Wikipedia entry

We now know the kind of woman Jimmy Wales goes for: brunettes who appear on Fox News and have conveniently troubled Wikipedia entries. In January, the founder of the world's greatest online list of unusually shaped vegetables was courting Canadian controversialist Rachel Marsden with sex-fantasy-laden IM chats. But at the same time, Wales was also playing the gallant on Star editor-at-large and former Fox News late-night pundit Julia Allison's Wikipedia page. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Owen Thomas
5,763 views, 76 comments

Latest by Troll_2.0: @microserfin: Kool-aid chum? Do you fish with that or something? more »

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Wales's ex-girlfriend on Wikipedia edits: "Game on, sweetheart"

There is no neutral point of view in a love affair gone bad. Jimmy Wales violated Wikipedia's rules in posting a note announcing his breakup with Canadian journalist Rachel Marsden on the world's most exacting collection of urban legends about McDonald's. Marsden has retaliated in kind, or attempted to. Her recent efforts to leave a note for Wales on Wikipedia — "the only way to have any sort of rational or caring discussion with him," she claims — resulted in her account being banned by administrators. More »

11:20 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,793 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: LOL!!!!!!!!! more »

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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 director of the nonprofit which runs Wikipedia. Gardner has always been swift to rush to Jimmy Wales's defense — oddly so, since he's just one of many board members she reports to. In a recent newspaper article on Wales, there was this line: "Ms. Gardner said there will always be a need for what Mr. Wales provides." Ah yes, what Mr. Wales provides. To Rachel Marsden, Elisabeth Bauer, and Barbara Cohen, among others, you mean? More »

6:00 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Owen Thomas
5,197 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: Sue Gardner denies that there is anything to this story on NotTheWikipediaWeekly. more »

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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 by the nonprofit WIkipedia. The latest names linked to Wales: Barbara Cohen, formerly an editor with the Public Library of Science, left; and Julie Melton, an online-learning expert, right. Wales's relationship with Cohen, former Wikipedia insiders say, contributed to the breakup of her marriage. Melton stayed in Wales's apartment, though she's said to be seeing someone else. Yes, yes, I know, enough about the sex — did he edit their Wikipedia entries? More »

4:00 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,365 views, 9 comments

Latest by dengelbery: I don't even think my dyke friends would even hit that... more »

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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 friends list tells another story. The most recent comment comes from a MySpace user named Andrea, whose picture closely resembles Andrea Weckerle, a woman to whom Wales has been linked. Scroll through Wales's friends list, and you'll find a woman in a French maid's outfit, a woman in a thong bikini, a woman posing in lingerie, and several girls who seem a bit young for Wales. One almost needs an online encyclopedia to keep track of them all.

4:20 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,543 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: Melissa, please please please post something. You're our only hope... more »

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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 saying Wikipedia paid for Bauer, known online as "Elian," to travel with Wales as an upaid Wikipedia press officer — a title he insisted on for her, though some argue she was unqualified for the job. More »

2:40 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,831 views, 2 comments

Latest by matto: @Alaska Miller: have you seen jimbo? more »

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Rupert Murdoch's underlings lets loose on Jimmy Wales

News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch may be getting a bit slow in his dotage, but he still knows a good story. Is it a coincidence that three arms of his media empire — the Times of London, Fox News, and the New York Post — have belatedly picked up on Jimmy Wales's bizarre breakup with Rachel Marsden? Marsden was, until last fall, a Fox News commentator, which can only make the tale more delicious for Murdoch: The prodigal daughter welcomed back as grist for the gossip mill. Beyond that, why the onslaught? More »

11:20 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,793 views, 3 comments

Latest by macbeach: Can't... look... away... I hate myself. more »

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Jimmy Wales's other other women

In an IM chat with ex-girlfriend Rachel Marsden, Jimmy Wales scolded Valleywag for not following his sex life more closely: "I have shown up at many different Silicon Valley events with many different "dates" through the past year or so, although not always actually dates, so the assumption would be colleagues or whatever, and figured they would eventually pay attention to that." True, Jimbo, we've been remiss. And we're doing our best to make it up to you. Besides Marsden, we've heard two names frequently linked to Wales, who is separated from his wife. Either would be an impressive catch. If the rumors are true, then all we can say is — well-played, Jimbo, well-played. More »

5:00 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
11,294 views, 15 comments

Latest by Fidel on the Roof: Andrea! (whistle) Pretty! more »

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Wales's last-ditch bid to make up with girlfriend

A tipster reports overhearing Jimmy Wales at SFO the morning of Saturday, February 23, pleading with a girlfriend — presumably Rachel Marsden — to keep the relationship alive. His eyewitness report of the conversation: More »

3:40 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
5,070 views, 3 comments

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The dirtiest Wikipedia sex chat you can imagine

What's the worst thing Jimmy Wales could talk about with a girlfriend? Get your mind out of the gutter, and down into the sewer. Before his Wikipedia-posted breakup with Rachel Marsden, Wales plotted with the Canadian journalist on exactly how he was going to get her Wikipedia entry cleaned up. To avoid his foes at Wikipedia Review, he told Marsden he'd work through proxies. In a statement, he claimed he was not acting "inappropriately." Here are the transcripts which will let you judge for yourself. (Marsden is the "me" in this chat; Wales's moniker is "jimbo.wales.") More »

1:20 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
18,041 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: As the "sad, sad" person who predicted in November 2006 (on wikipediareview.com) that Ms. Marsden and Mr. Wales might wind more »

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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, Michael. For Wales, Valleywag induces not the big death but the little one. In his sex chats with Rachel Marsden, Wales fantasized about taking the Canadian TV commentator to a public event like this spring's Time 100 party, and wondered why Valleywag hadn't previously outed him. The transcripts, below: More »

10:00 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
3,883 views, 10 comments

Latest by sample032: @sample032: And in my quest for most hyperactive commenter, 2008, here's a video of the Arrington break-in: [blog.fleck.com] more »

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The goodbye email from Jimmy Wales's girlfriend

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Fox News personality Rachel Marsden have broken up — and Jimmy is learning a harsh lesson: hell has no fury like a woman scorned. Here's the goodbye email from Rachel to Jimmy and an IM conversation that strongly suggests Wales violated Wikipedia's rules to encourage favorable changes to Marsden's Wikipedia profile.

jimbo.wales: and therefore not appropriate for me to directly edit the article with a conflict of interest
jimbo.wales: the truth is of course a much worse conflict of interest than that :) but that will do

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2:53 PM on Sun Mar 2 2008
By Jordan Golson
130,608 views, 19 comments

Latest by MyEasyTV: @Dweezil: that honestly must be it. more »

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Wikipedia guy's ex-girlfriend auctions his clothes on eBay

Breaking up stinks. Never more so than when your ex is Jimmy Wales, the unhygienic founder of Wikipedia, right-wing TV commentator Rachel Marsden has learned. Before Wales dumped her via Wikipedia, he left two reeking articles of clothing at her New York apartment. She's now selling them on eBay Canada. Today's contribution to the sum of all human knowledge: Jimmy Wales shops at Men's Wearhouse. Screenshots of the eBay listings: More »

9:38 AM on Sun Mar 2 2008
By Owen Thomas
21,945 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: Wow. The T-shirt she's auctioning on e-Bay is now going for over $12,000? What kinda the Hell kinda high-quality fabric more »

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