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Jimmy Wales speaks at Wikimania 2007 (live stream!)

August 3, 2007

The Wikimania 2007 keynote is on at this very moment, with Florence addressing the audience right now. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, will be speaking very shortly. If you have Skype, get online and listen right now!

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Jimmy Wales speaks at Wikimania 2007 (live stream!)

August 3, 2007

The Wikimania 2007 keynote is on at this very moment, with Florence addressing the audience right now. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, will be speaking very shortly. If you have Skype, get online and listen right now!

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Forget my own head if it weren’t nailed on

March 12, 2007

A recent email from Larry Sanger:

All,

It occurs to me that a few of you might not be participating on the wiki (http://pilot.citizendium.org/) because you lost your username. Well, it’s no bother for us to look it up for you. If you have forgotten yours, simply drop a quick mail to constables at citizendium.org and we’ll send it to you. Then you can easily have your password sent to you, and get involved!

–Larry

Hang on. Citizendium requires all users to register with their real names, and always has done; it’s one of the fundamental principles of the site. Not only that, but there is a standard format for all Citizendium usernames: “Firstname Lastname”.

So.. why does Larry think that people are forgetting their own names?

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The twenty-first thing

March 11, 2007

Angela Beesley has collected a total of twenty things you probably didn’t know about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, and it’s a good read. Some particularly important points that I want to stress would be:

13. The Wikipedia Foundation did not announce a new project.
16. Admins do not have editorial authority in Wikipedia.
17. Wikia is not a Wikimedia project.

If everyone would get these points right, the pedant within me would be that much happier. I have one more, based on my own experience:

21. Yes, I did hear about “that guy on Wikipedia.” Thank you for asking.

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