Bureaucrats, Check users, Interface administrators, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Administrators, vuser
9,362
edits
Changes
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Thursday November 21, 2024
Jump to navigationJump to searchthe money
[[Image:Jimbo_sleepy.jpg|right|thumb|214px|The man, the legend, Jimmy Wales]][[Wikipedia]] co-founder '''Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has often been criticized''' for his sometimes authoritarian, sometimes unaccountable, and sometimes inept style in his direction of the online encyclopedia community and for his mismanagement of the [[Directory:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] that is responsible for running it.
[[Image:Jimbo_sleepy.jpg|right|thumb|214px|The man, the legend, Jimmy Wales]][[Wikipedia]] co-founder '''Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has often been criticized''' for his sometimes authoritarian, sometimes unaccountable, and sometimes inept style in his direction of the online encyclopedia community and for his mismanagement of the [[Directory:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] that is responsible for running it.
As a [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=Everyking&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia Wikipedia administrator] with over 125,000 edits on the project has said:
As a [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=Everyking&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia Wikipedia administrator] with over 125,000 edits on the project has said:
:''It is a sad, sad statement on the Wikipedia community that it has never gotten rid of Jimbo Wales. It's remarkable to me that now, in 2010, Jimbo is still around, while the project itself is stagnating quite badly. I thought at one time that such a vibrant project with so much potential would surely jettison Jimbo -- who is so obviously a useless and unprincipled opportunist -- in relatively short order, once it matured to a certain point. Instead I'm starting to wonder if the project will sink and Jimbo will still be sitting there when it does.'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=30616&view=findpost&p=250652 |title=User:Everyking |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120921/http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=30616&view=findpost&p=250652 |archivedate=2012-09-21}}, August 31, 2010.</ref>
:''It is a sad, sad statement on the Wikipedia community that it has never gotten rid of Jimbo Wales. It's remarkable to me that now, in 2010, Jimbo is still around, while the project itself is stagnating quite badly. I thought at one time that such a vibrant project with so much potential would surely jettison Jimbo -- who is so obviously a useless and unprincipled opportunist -- in relatively short order, once it matured to a certain point. Instead I'm starting to wonder if the project will sink and Jimbo will still be sitting there when it does.'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=30616&view=findpost&p=250652 |title=User:Everyking |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120921/http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=30616&view=findpost&p=250652 |archivedate=2012-09-21}}, August 31, 2010.</ref>
==Show him the money==
Jimmy Wales isn’t paid to actually figure things out. He’s paid (by organizations like Alfresco Summt, IP Expo, and the government of the United Arab Emirates) to stand up in front of large audiences and say dopey, unrealistic things. Because Wikipedia. But when you get down to watching Jimmy Wales actually trying to figure things out, such as with a business, the landscape is littered with his failures. Bomis didn’t work out, even though it was an Internet leader in its time. Openserving failed. Wikia Search had the plug pulled on it without warning. CiviliNation was a failure, as was Impossible.com – two “do good” ventures that Wales backed, only to watch them run into the ground financially. In 2014-15 he’s doing the most serious business of his career, with a £20 million IPO on The People’s Operator. Well, he’s already burned through 40% of that company’s IPO cash, and the firm is losing £7.22 for every £1.00 of revenue taken in.
It really is a wonder why any organization (or journalist) actually pays any attention to the man. He exudes altruism, but in the background, he’s just making sure he gets paid. (E.g., even as TPO is losing investors' money hand over fist, Jimbo’s £250,000 annual salary is ensured.)
==Not a pornographer?==
==Not a pornographer?==
