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[[Wikipedia]] founder '''Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has often been criticized''' for his authoritarian style in the management of the online encyclopedia and for his management of the [[Wikimedia]] Foundation that is responsible for running it.
[[Wikipedia]] co-founder '''Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has often been criticized''' for his authoritarian 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 [[The New York Times|New York Times]] writer commented in a recent column:
As [[The New York Times|New York Times]] writer commented in a recent column:
:"As long as he is involved with Wikipedia, however, Mr. Wales will continue to be a guiding light for its many contributors — as well as a lighting rod for its critics." <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/technology/17wikipedia.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1205899200&en=e0949ec94f152e85&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin "Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World" by Noam Cohen. March 17, 2008.]</ref>
:"As long as he is involved with Wikipedia, however, Mr. Wales will continue to be a guiding light for its many contributors — as well as a lighting rod for its critics." <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/technology/17wikipedia.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1205899200&en=e0949ec94f152e85&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin "Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World" by Noam Cohen. March 17, 2008.]</ref>
==Not a pornographer?==
Jimbo Wales made repeated edits to his own biography on Wikipedia. One particularly hard bone of contention was [[Directory:Bomis|Bomis]], Jimbo's thriving Internet venture prior to Wikipedia. Bomis, a search portal, also included a healthy dose of "adult content", which Jimbo previously downplayed as ''glamour photography'' -- though as [[Directory:The New Yorker|The New Yorker]] notes, "glamour photography" is ''"not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes."'' Nonetheless, Jimbo has been steadfast in his efforts to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=26702273&oldid=26658959 remove any suggestion that the beacon of free culture was at one time an unapologetic pornography peddler].
=="Sole Founder" controversy with Larry Sanger==
=="Sole Founder" controversy with Larry Sanger==
==Essjay scandal==
==Essjay scandal==
In January 2007, Wales hired Ryan Jordan (pseudonymously known as "Essjay" on Wikipedia) to work at Wikia, Inc. At that time, it is presumed that Wikia knew that Jordan was not academically credentialed as a Theology PhD, as described on his Wikipedia user page. Later in February, Wales appointed Essjay to Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. When the ''Wikipedia Review'' engaged the ''New Yorker'' magazine to expose Essjay's fraud, Wales' first reaction was to say he "didn't really have a problem with it".
In January 2007, Wales hired Ryan Jordan (pseudonymously known as "Essjay" on Wikipedia) to work at Wikia, Inc. At that time, it is presumed that Wikia knew that Jordan was not academically credentialed as a Theology PhD, as described on his Wikipedia user page. Later in February, Wales appointed Essjay to Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. When the ''Wikipedia Review'' engaged the ''New Yorker'' magazine to expose Essjay's fraud, Wales' first reaction was to say he "didn't really have a problem with it".
==Spyware? What spyware?==
Jimbo must have some fond connection with a piece of hated software called BonziBUDDY, because Jimbo has no problem stepping in personally on this Wikipedia subject. Those Internet veterans among you may remember BonziBUDDY, that obnoxious purple gorilla whose friendly and helpful appearance just happened to hide a program designed to infest your computer with truckloads of adware and malware. The mainstream media was virtually unanimous in scorning BonziBUDDY on various "most hated" lists. Jimbo, however, had a curiously different opinion; in fact, he couldn't keep this opinion to himself, so he [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BonziBUDDY&diff=168350569&oldid=168303939 personally edited Wikipedia's BonziBUDDY article] to systematically erase mention of "spyware" from the article. In fact, Jimbo also violated the Wikipedia rule against "original research" by becoming an expert paralegal for a moment: ''"In the following legal settlement, the issue was not the issue of "spyware", a term which does not appear in any of the legal documents."''
==Rachel Marsden affair==
==Rachel Marsden affair==
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==Misspending Foundation funds==
==Misspending Foundation funds==
==References==
==References==
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==Additional reading==
[http://moriyosi.livejournal.com/28156.html Moriyosi on LiveJournal] - The Problem With Wikipedia, Part 1
[http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Jimbo_Wales Wikitruth] - Jimbo Wales
