QUOTE(Cock-up-over-conspiracy @ Mon 31st May 2010, 11:48am)
Hold on a moment, according to Henry Blodget's of businessinsider.com "leadership series" video, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
had the idea for a volunteer written Encyclopedia in 1999.
And the volunteers really "care about quality"!!!
I still think all these capitalists are just sucking up to jimbo to find out how to get their workers to work for free.
Yo, Jimmy Wales has lied about many things, but actually not this. He had the notion of a free encyclopedia in late 1999, he has always said, which is when he originally registered Nupedia.com, the domain name. He did not of course have "the idea for Wikipedia" then. He had just the vaguest of ideas--an "open source" encyclopedia.
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