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| The best place to learn about who am I is at my website | |||
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| It may not be entirely clear from the above that Jimbo is our "benevolent dictator" (see ], ]), as well as our ] under the ]. Well, now you know. | |||
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| Email: jwales at bomis.com | |||
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| A barnstar for Jimbo - he is so nice. Someday a historical statue will be built for him! ] 01:31, 17 Feb 2004 | |||
| == Selected mailing list posts == | |||
| Basically, if Jimbo says something worthwhile on wikien-l or wikipedia-l, you can repost it here so everyone can read it. | |||
| If it's just typical mailing list drivel, don't bother. | |||
| === Print edition === | |||
| I've been approached by a major publisher about the possibility of | |||
| working with us to producing and publish a print edition of Misplaced Pages. | |||
| The concept that they are most interested in at the moment is a single | |||
| large volume, something similar to the Columbia Encyclopedia (a | |||
| desktop encyclopedia, 3200 pages) or Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | |||
| (2067 pages). | |||
| The Britannica Concise has 28,000 entries. The Columbia has 51,000 | |||
| entries. I have no idea of estimated word or byte counts for those. | |||
| One goal would be to have something ready for market by October 1st, | |||
| in time for the holiday gift season. I'm unsure of how early before | |||
| that *we* would need to be ready. | |||
| I've only begun talking to them about it, which is why I won't say who | |||
| it is just yet. But they understand our license and want to work with | |||
| us. | |||
| The question was asked of me, and I ask of the community: can we have | |||
| something like that ready in time? Or should we shoot for next year? | |||
| I have long stated a goal that "Misplaced Pages 1.0" be ready in December of | |||
| this year, although we haven't actually made any formal decisions | |||
| about how we're going to do that. | |||
| So this is more ambitious and less ambitious. More ambitious in the | |||
| sense that we'd be trying to meet an earlier deadline. Less ambitious | |||
| in the sense that we'd be trying to do something smaller than a full | |||
| Britannica-killer. | |||
| --Jimbo | |||
| === Trading with the enemy === | |||
| http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/national/28PUBL.html | |||
| I just assumed that Fred was joking or exaggerating about what this | |||
| story says. But he's reporting it accurately. | |||
| I will say that we should cautious about believing all the quotes in | |||
| the story. One of the scholars quoted suggests that this sort of | |||
| editing "would constitute aiding and abetting the enemy". I very much | |||
| doubt if that's accurate. I don't think that violating a trade | |||
| embargo would lead to that sort of charge (treason) exactly. | |||
| As for me personally, I intend to just plain and simple ignore this as | |||
| bureaucratic fantasy. I can't imagine this passing constitutional | |||
| muster for even a second. I defy the government to bring a case | |||
| against me or any of you or the Wikimedia Foundation over this. | |||
| They'll look like complete idiots and be laughed out of court. | |||
| --Jimbo | |||