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On December 1, 2005 Wales told ''Editor & Publisher'' magazine, the nation’s oldest trade journal serving the newspaper industry regarding Daniel Brandt, | On December 1, 2005 Wales told ''Editor & Publisher'' magazine, the nation’s oldest trade journal serving the newspaper industry regarding Daniel Brandt, | ||
| − | {{Cquote|I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all... I find it hard to take him very seriously ...<ref>[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1001612839 Wikipedia Founder, Readers Respond to Seigenthaler Article], Jay DeFoore, ''Editor & Publisher'', December 01, 2005.</ref>}}Brandt was the victim of malicious and vile slanders placed within his Wikipedia biographical entry in violation of numerous published Wikipedia policies.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&oldid=55132392</ref> | + | {{Cquote|I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all... I find it hard to take him very seriously ...<ref>[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1001612839 Wikipedia Founder, Readers Respond to Seigenthaler Article], Jay DeFoore, ''Editor & Publisher'', December 01, 2005.</ref>}}Brandt was the victim of malicious and vile slanders placed within his Wikipedia biographical entry by prominent Wikipedia contributors, in violation of numerous published Wikipedia policies.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&oldid=55132392</ref> |
Four days later in a joint appearance with Seigenthaler on [[CNN]] Wales said, | Four days later in a joint appearance with Seigenthaler on [[CNN]] Wales said, | ||
Revision as of 04:14, November 15, 2007
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia, self-described libertarian and strong advocate of free-market capitalism. Jimmy Wales is an objectivist who follows the philosophy of Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand. [1] Wales told an interviewer in Reason magazine, "One can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek." [2] His favorite book is Atlas Shrugged by Rand.
Jimmy Wales became a millionaire by trading stock; before funding Wikipedia, he funded Bomis Inc. in 1996, an online pornography portal.[3] Besides funding the non-profit Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales also funded the for-profit Wikia, a company that provides wiki services for businesses and organizations.
Wales was caught editing his own profile on Wikipedia in a bit of a scandal in an effort to downplay Larry Sanger's role in the company and distance himself from his Bomis past.
Controversy
In early October 2005, former Robert F. Kennedy aid and retired journalist John Seigenthaler Sr. contacted Wales about false and libelous information in his Wikipedia biographical entry. Essjay was given the call to deal with the situation.[4]
On December 1, 2005 Wales told Editor & Publisher magazine, the nation’s oldest trade journal serving the newspaper industry regarding Daniel Brandt,
| “ | I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all... I find it hard to take him very seriously ...[5] | ” |
Brandt was the victim of malicious and vile slanders placed within his Wikipedia biographical entry by prominent Wikipedia contributors, in violation of numerous published Wikipedia policies.[6]
Four days later in a joint appearance with Seigenthaler on CNN Wales said,
| “ | we are very, very responsive to complaints and concerns.[7] | ” |
Essjay, who was given oversight responsibilities in the wake of the Seigenthaler scandal, told a professor he was trying to convince to allow her students to cite Wikipedia as a "reliable source,"
| “ | It is never the case that known incorrect information is allowed to remain in Wikipedia; we strive to provide a resource that is both accurate and expansive. As we approach one million articles (far more than any other encyclopedia could ever hope to attain) on the English Wikipedia alone (there are hundreds of thousands of articles in the projects that make up the Wikimedia Foundation in dozens of different languages), we prove ourselves as a resource like none ever known before. | ” |
The derogatory smears against Brandt, self-cited to a certifiably "extremist source" which "should never be used" remained in Brandt's biography for one and half years, with Jimbo Wales and the WikiMedia Foundations full knowledge.
References
- ↑ Interview with Jimmy Wales conducted by Brian Lamb, C-SPAN Transcript, September 25, 2005.
- ↑ Wikipedia and Beyond, Jimmy Wales' sprawling vision, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reasononline.com, June 2007.
- ↑ http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/12/69880
- ↑ User:Essjay/Letter. Retrieved from WikiTruth, November 3, 2007.
- ↑ Wikipedia Founder, Readers Respond to Seigenthaler Article, Jay DeFoore, Editor & Publisher, December 01, 2005.
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&oldid=55132392
- ↑ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/05/lol.02.html
External Links
Jimmy Wales' Blog (this blog was last updated Feb. 16, 2007) Template:Stub