What Would You Ask Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales?
Vance Nelson has a question for you:
Cass Sunstein, of Republic.com 2.0, John Seigenthaler; long time considered one of the greatest journalists in America, Jimmy Wales; founder of Wikipedia, and Robert Cox; President of the Media Bloggers Association are all going be present at my college next week. Unfortunately my schedule doesn’t allow me to attend during the time that Robert Cox will be there. However, I will be able to be in the auditorium when Jimmy Wales is going to be speaking. I was wondering if you yourself had an opportunity to pick his brain, what kind of questions you might ask him, if any. I myself can only think of one so far. I want to ask him right there in front of a bunch of students and possibly quite a few professors why he thinks that ever since i’ve been in college I haven’t once been able to use his website as a credible source of information when doing a research paper or an essay of any kind. Certainly the founder of WIkipedia isn’t going to stand there in front of all those people and shout “BECAUSE IT ISN’T!” Surely he will at least give them some sort of feedback as to why it should at least be considered somewhat credible for academic research.
If I had one question to ask Jimmy, it would be: “Why didn’t you respond to my request to have you speak at Gnomedex a few years back?”
So, what would you ask Jimmy?
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3 Comments
isabella mori
March 16th, 2008
at 11:01pm
as someone from vancouver who has had the great joy of following rachel marsden’s, um, career, i would feel tempted to ask, what DID you find attractive about her? name one thing. okay, half a thing. a quarter of a thing? anything.
thank you. once or twice a year i need to be catty.
geekazine
March 16th, 2008
at 11:19pm
The first thing I would ask him what Wikipedia needs to do to keep revenue coming in without placing advertising on the page. The second thing I would ask is where he would see Wikipedia in 100 years.
Nathan
March 17th, 2008
at 8:28am
I would ask him why he denies his co-founder his co-founder’s status. From everything I’ve seen, Jimmy Wales is a tremendous jerk (strongly editing for content), and has very few, if any redeeming qualities.
In the past several months, he has proven that he has very little ethical sense, and shows absolutely no shame at doing so.