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| In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content.<ref name="wirednews"/> Wales explained that Sanger had been his employee,<ref name="uniontribune">{{cite news|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html|author =Jonathan Sidener|title =Everyone's Encyclopedia|accessdate=2006-10-15|publisher=San Diego Union Tribune}}</ref> and that he considered himself to be the sole founder of Misplaced Pages. In 2006, Wales told the '']'' that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder;<ref name="preposterous">{{cite news| first=Janet |last=Knott |title=Bias, sabotage haunt Misplaced Pages's free world|url=http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/12/bias_sabotage_haunt_wikipedias_free_world/?page=4| publisher=]|date=]|accessdate=2006-04-12}}</ref> however, Sanger strongly contests that description. He was identified as a co-founder of Misplaced Pages at least as early as September 2001<ref name="sanger-NYTimes">{{cite news|author=Peter Meyers|title=Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5D6123BF933A1575AC0A9679C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fComputer%20Software|publisher=]|accessdate=2006-10-15|date=]|quote=<small>It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work," said Jimmy Wales, Misplaced Pages's co-founder and the chief executive of Bomis, a San Diego search engine company that donates the computer resources for the project. "There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things." Instead, he said, "there's a general consensus among all of the really busy volunteers about what an encyclopedia article needs to be like.</small>}}</ref> and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/search/?title=Wikipedia_and_why_it_matters&oldid=149626|author=]|title=What Misplaced Pages is and why it matters|accessdate=2006-04-12}}</ref> In addition to developing Misplaced Pages in its early phase, Sanger claims he is also responsible for the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a 💕. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."<ref>{{cite news|author=]|title=The Early History of Nupedia and Misplaced Pages: A Memoir|publisher=]|url=http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213|date=]|accessdate=2005-04-18}}</ref> In response to Wales revisionism,<ref name="Dan_Mitchell"/> Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Misplaced Pages by referencing earlier versions of Misplaced Pages pages, citing press releases from Misplaced Pages in the years of 2002-2004, and early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.<ref name="SangerLinks"> | In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content.<ref name="wirednews"/> Wales explained that Sanger had been his employee,<ref name="uniontribune">{{cite news|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html|author =Jonathan Sidener|title =Everyone's Encyclopedia|accessdate=2006-10-15|publisher=San Diego Union Tribune}}</ref> and that he considered himself to be the sole founder of Misplaced Pages. In 2006, Wales told the '']'' that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder;<ref name="preposterous">{{cite news| first=Janet |last=Knott |title=Bias, sabotage haunt Misplaced Pages's free world|url=http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/12/bias_sabotage_haunt_wikipedias_free_world/?page=4| publisher=]|date=]|accessdate=2006-04-12}}</ref> however, Sanger strongly contests that description. He was identified as a co-founder of Misplaced Pages at least as early as September 2001<ref name="sanger-NYTimes">{{cite news|author=Peter Meyers|title=Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5D6123BF933A1575AC0A9679C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fComputer%20Software|publisher=]|accessdate=2006-10-15|date=]|quote=<small>It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work," said Jimmy Wales, Misplaced Pages's co-founder and the chief executive of Bomis, a San Diego search engine company that donates the computer resources for the project. "There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things." Instead, he said, "there's a general consensus among all of the really busy volunteers about what an encyclopedia article needs to be like.</small>}}</ref> and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/search/?title=Wikipedia_and_why_it_matters&oldid=149626|author=]|title=What Misplaced Pages is and why it matters|accessdate=2006-04-12}}</ref> In addition to developing Misplaced Pages in its early phase, Sanger claims he is also responsible for the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a 💕. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."<ref>{{cite news|author=]|title=The Early History of Nupedia and Misplaced Pages: A Memoir|publisher=]|url=http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213|date=]|accessdate=2005-04-18}}</ref> In response to Wales revisionism,<ref name="Dan_Mitchell"/> Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Misplaced Pages by referencing earlier versions of Misplaced Pages pages, citing press releases from Misplaced Pages in the years of 2002-2004, and early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.<ref name="SangerLinks"> | ||
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| Following this incident, Wales apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Misplaced Pages. Wales said in the ''Wired'' interview, "People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it."<ref name="wirednews"/> He continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Misplaced Pages.<ref name="preposterous"/> However, it has been reported that Wales is the co-founder.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6102279.html| title=Misplaced Pages's Wales touts 'free culture' movement|publisher=]|date=2006-08-04}}</ref> | Following this incident, Wales apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Misplaced Pages. Wales said in the ''Wired'' interview, "People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it."<ref name="wirednews"/> He continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Misplaced Pages.<ref name="preposterous"/> However, it has been reported that Wales is the co-founder.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6102279.html| title=Misplaced Pages's Wales touts 'free culture' movement|publisher=]|date=2006-08-04}}</ref> | ||
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| Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales | |
|---|---|
 Jimmy Wales (August 2006) | |
| Born | (1966-08-07) August 7, 1966 (age 58) Huntsville, Alabama, USA |
| Occupation(s) | President of Wikia, Inc.; Board member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation |
| Spouse | Christine |
| Children | Kira |
| Website | User page on Misplaced Pages |
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, (born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Misplaced Pages, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.
Personal life
Wales' father worked as a grocery store manager while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran a small private school "in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse" where Wales received his education. Most of the time there were four children in his grade so the school grouped the first through fourth grade students together and the fifth through eighth grade students together.
Education
After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, Alabama, which was an early supporter of computer labs and other technology for student use. Wales has said that the school was expensive for his family, but that education was regarded as important. "Education was always a passion in my household … you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life." He received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and started with the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama, where he left with a Master's in finance. After that, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the doctoral dissertation required to earn a Ph.D.
Career
From 1994-2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trader in Chicago. By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives", according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine. During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of a dot-com erotic search engine, Bomis, that later helped in the initial funding for Misplaced Pages. The nature of Bomis is disputed — Wales describes Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine" that often sold erotic materials which was similar in nature to "Maxim" magazine with sometimes scantily clad women when confronted with the opinion that Bomis dealt in "soft-core pornography."
In a 2007 interview Wales said that in 1999 he had a student design software for a top-down design multilingual encyclopedia website, however it was too slow to be usable.
In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia ("the 💕"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief.
Misplaced Pages and Wikimedia Foundation
After Larry Sanger publicly proposed on January 10, 2001 the idea of using a wiki to create an encyclopedia, Wales installed wiki software on a server and authorized Sanger to pursue the project under his supervision. Sanger dubbed the project "Misplaced Pages" and, with Wales, laid down the founding principles, content and established an Internet-based community of contributors during that year. Misplaced Pages was initially intended to be a wiki-based site for collaboration on early encyclopedic content for submission to Nupedia, but Misplaced Pages's rapid growth soon outstripped Nupedia's process capacity to review new content. Sanger was laid off in early 2002 and he then resigned from the leadership of Misplaced Pages. Wales has said that he initially was so worried with the concept that he would wake up in the middle of the night, wanting to check the site for vandalism.
In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization based in St. Petersburg, Florida, to support Misplaced Pages and its younger sibling projects. He appointed himself and two business partners who are not active Wikipedians to the five-member board; the remaining two members are elected community representatives.
Wales has explained his motivations about Misplaced Pages. In an interview with Slashdot, he said, "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
He also later went on to co-found, along with Angela Beesley, the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.
Media appearances and honors
2005
Wales was appointed a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2005.
On October 3 2005, according to a press release, Wales joined the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses.
2006
In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Creative Commons.
- On June 3 2006, Wales received an honorary degree from Knox College.
- On May 3 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded him a Pioneer Award .
- Wales was the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the May 8 2006 special edition of Time ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing 100 influential people.
- On November 4 2006, Wales appeared in the "Not My Job" segment of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a weekly news-quiz show on National Public Radio. The topic was "It must be True, I read it on Misplaced Pages". He answered all three questions incorrectly.
- On October 6 2006, Wales appeared on PBS' Charlie Rose.
- Jimmy Wales was nominated for Beard of the Year 2006, and Forbes "The Web Celebs 25" ranked him #12 in 2007.
2007
Wales was featured in the April 2 2007 issue of Time magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." He answered ten questions culled from Time's readership. He was the second to be interviewed in this fashion, after Chris Rock, as previously the questions were composed by a Time staff member. In his replies, he acknowledged the limitations of Misplaced Pages, while defending its usefulness.
On April 10, 2007 the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries (in South Carolina and hosted by Converse College) had Jimmy Wales as a special guest speaker. A humorous event occurred when an introductory speaker (Dr. Mark Monson) misspoke while presenting an award and said “gynecological” rather than “genealogical”. Later, during a question and answer period Wales was asked by a school aged child what Wales’s favorite article was that a third grader could read. Wales (after some consideration) said that Inherently funny word would probably be the case. He later cautioned that a parent may want to check on this before sending their child to the site. However, perhaps a new word will be added to this article because the questioner after a few attempts at pronunciation asked if “genie-whatever that was” was one of those words, and if it was the study of genies. Wales advised that this question be answered by his parents and continued with the forum.
Controversy
Bomis
In 1996, Wales founded a search portal called Bomis, which also sold erotic materials until mid-2005. He was asked in a September 2005 C-SPAN interview about his previous involvement with what the interviewer, Brian Lamb, called "dirty pictures." In response, Wales described Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine", with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine. In an interview with Wired News, he also explained that he disputed the categorization of Bomis content as "soft-core pornography": "If R-rated movies are porn, it was porn. In other words, no, it was not."
Misplaced Pages revisionism
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In late 2005, Wales was criticized for editing his own biography page on Misplaced Pages. Larry Sanger commented that "it seemed Wales was trying to rewrite history". In particular, Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that Wales had removed references to Sanger as the co-founder of Misplaced Pages. He was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products. An article in the July 31 2006 issue of the New Yorker magazine expanded on this topic:
Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Misplaced Pages entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. "Adult content" or "glamour photography" are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes. (In January, Wales agreed to a compromise: "erotic photography.")
In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content. Wales explained that Sanger had been his employee, and that he considered himself to be the sole founder of Misplaced Pages. In 2006, Wales told the Boston Globe that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder; however, Sanger strongly contests that description. He was identified as a co-founder of Misplaced Pages at least as early as September 2001 and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002. In addition to developing Misplaced Pages in its early phase, Sanger claims he is also responsible for the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a 💕. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on." In response to Wales revisionism, Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Misplaced Pages by referencing earlier versions of Misplaced Pages pages, citing press releases from Misplaced Pages in the years of 2002-2004, and early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.
Following this incident, Wales apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Misplaced Pages. Wales said in the Wired interview, "People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it." He continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Misplaced Pages. However, it has been reported that Wales is the co-founder.
Personal philosophy
Wales is a self-avowed "Objectivist to the core," although he says, "I think I do a better job — than a lot of people who self-identify as Objectivists — of not pushing my point of view on other people." When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on C-SPAN's Q&A about Rand, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a libertarian, qualifying his remark by referring to the Libertarian Party as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles. From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy".
Published works by Wales
- Robert Brooks, Jon Corson, and J. Donal Wales. "The Pricing of Index Options When the Underlying Assets All Follow a Lognormal Diffusion", in Advances in Futures and Options Research, volume 7, 1994. See also log-normal distribution.
Sources and notes
- "Founder of Misplaced Pages plans search engine to rival Google". Times Online. 2006-12-23. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Wales, Jimmy", Britannica Book of the Year, 2007
- ""Board of Trustees" at Wikimedia Foundation". Retrieved 2007-01-12.
- Times Online Article about Jimmy Wales
- ^ Mitchell, Dan (2005-12-24). "Insider Editing at Misplaced Pages". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Press_releases/January_2002 Misplaced Pages press release 01/15/2002
- Bergstein, Brian (2007-03-25). "Sanger says he co-started Misplaced Pages". ABC News. Associated Press. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Misplaced Pages, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem particularly controversial - Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, isn't happy about it.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) — Brian Bergstein. - McNichol, Tom (2007-03-01). "Misplaced Pages founder hunts for gold". Business 2.0. CNN. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Lamb, Brian (2005-09-25). "Q&A: Jimmy Wales, Misplaced Pages founder". C-SPAN. Retrieved 2006-07-11.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Pink, Daniel H. (2005-03-13). "The Book Stops Here". Wired. Retrieved 2006-10-09.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Hansen, Evan. "Misplaced Pages Founder Edits Own Bio". Wired News. Wired. Retrieved 2006-02-14.
- ^ In Search of an Online Utopia 2007-02-01.
- My resignation--Larry Sanger 2002-03-01. Retrieved on 2006-10-19.
- Misplaced Pages's co-founder eyes a Digital Universe 2006-01-06.
- Co-Founder to Launch Edited Version of Misplaced Pages 2006-10-17.
- My role in Misplaced Pages January 2007.
- Wikimedia foundation bylaws.
- Wales, Jimmy (2004-07-28). ""Misplaced Pages Founder Jimmy Wales Replies"". Slashdot. Retrieved 2006-06-07.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Misplaced Pages Founder Joins Socialtext Board". Socialtext. 2005-10-03.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members". Creative Commons. 2006-03-30.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards". Kansas City infoZine News. 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Anderson, Chris (2006-05-08). "Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Misplaced Pages". Time. Retrieved 2006-04-30.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ""This Week's Show 4 November 2006"". 2006-11-04.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2006/12/beard_of_the_year.shtml
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- ^ Wales, Jimmy (April 10, 2007). (Speech). Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
{{cite speech}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - Rhys Blakely. "Misplaced Pages founder edits himself". Times Online. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ Rogers Cadenhead. "Misplaced Pages Founder Looks Out for Number 1". Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- "Misplaced Pages diff showing modification by Mr. Wales". Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact
- Jonathan Sidener. "Everyone's Encyclopedia". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ Knott, Janet (2006-02-12). "Bias, sabotage haunt Misplaced Pages's free world". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2006-04-12.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Peter Meyers (2001-09-20). "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You". New York Times. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work," said Jimmy Wales, Misplaced Pages's co-founder and the chief executive of Bomis, a San Diego search engine company that donates the computer resources for the project. "There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things." Instead, he said, "there's a general consensus among all of the really busy volunteers about what an encyclopedia article needs to be like.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Sanger, Larry. "What Misplaced Pages is and why it matters". Retrieved 2006-04-12.
- Sanger, Larry (2005-04-18). "The Early History of Nupedia and Misplaced Pages: A Memoir". Slashdot. Retrieved 2005-04-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Larry Sanger. "My role in Misplaced Pages (links)". larrysanger.org. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
- "Misplaced Pages's Wales touts 'free culture' movement". ZDNet. 2006-08-04.
- http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/01/29/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-rusirius-google-objectivism/
- Wales, Jimmy (1992-09-23). "Re: Objectivism of Ayn Rand". Newsgroup: talk.philosophy.misc. Bv1u8x.Bnv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu.
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- Setsuko Kamiya (2007-03-11). "Power to the Wikipeople". The Japan Times.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Misplaced Pages founder Jimmy Wales discusses encyclopedias, Microsoft and the next big thing(s) on the Internet". Newsweek. 2007-02-01.
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- Video of Jimmy Wales speaking at Gel 2005 conference April 29, 2005
- Open Source - The Misplaced Pages 2005-05-19 - hosted by Christopher Lydon
- “The Intelligence of Misplaced Pages" Talk Video of Jimmy Wales talk given at the Oxford Internet Institute - recorded 2005-07-11
- Video of Jimmy Wales speaking at TED Global Conference (July 12-July 15 2005) Oxford, UK
- Video of Jimmy Wales discussing Misplaced Pages 40 minutes from a talk Jimmy held at Stanford on 2005-09-02 available as an avi in torrent form and licensed under the Creative Commons (QuickTime: 200 MB, 70 MB)
- IT Conversations interview with Jimbo - recorded 2005-09-03
- Speech on Wednesday, 2005-10-05
- Video of Jimmy Wales interview by Irene McGee of NoOne's Listening 9 minutes, from Media Alliance event held in San Francisco on 2005-10-10
- Talk of the Nation - Misplaced Pages, Open Source and the Future of the Web, 2005-11-02
- Audio of Jimmy Wales talk at the iSchool, UC Berkeley about Community & politics & future plans & other things, 2005-11-03
- Jimmy Wales Talks Misplaced Pages on The Writing Show recorded 2005-12-05, posted 2006-01-01
- Jimmy Wales Keynote Speech on Misplaced Pages, Mass Tech Leadership Council meeting, 2006-02-08. Podcast by Dan Bricklin Podcast description.
- "Vision: Misplaced Pages and the Future of Free Culture" for The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, 2006-04-14
- Video of "Vision: Misplaced Pages and the Future of Free Culture" for The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, 2006-04-14
- Audio interview on FLOSS Weekly, 2006-05-26
- Audio interview on On Point, 2006-08-02
- No One's Listening interview of Jimmy Wales
- BBC Radio Five interview, 2007-01-08
- Interview with RU Sirius, 2007-01-29
- Video of and notes from Jimmys Talk on Free Culture, Transparency, and Search at New York University, 2007-01-31
- MP3 of Jimmy's talk about Wikia Search at NYU, 2007-01-31
- Jimmy Wales interviewed on KQED's Forum Program, 2007-01-05
- Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross 2007-04-18
- Jimmy Wales on Cranky Geeks April 3, 2007
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