A worthwhile comment was left with The Independent:
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Jimmy Wales really does seem to attack our basic human rights at times.
In my experience Wikipedia is a forbiddingly controlled environment. Of course PR people should be allowed to edit its entries! ie without ringing Jimmy and the 'Foundation' first – where they put their own select editors on the case.
Jimmy Wales is a notorious self-marketer, and lives by extremely oddball and right wing "Ayn Rand" Fountainhead politics. He lives in the UK now, and our media is more and more falling for the Cult of Jimbo - ('Jimbo Wales' being his Wikipedia name).
Wikipedia will never be remotely accurate unless people who know about things are "ethically" allowed to edit them. If information is inaccurate the idea is supposed to be that others rectify them (and vice versa - ie PR companies should be able to put things right). That's what PR is about isn't it? PR is a lifeline for many people – how dare Jimmy Wales keep making these judgement calls. He also won't allow people to pay others to do the quite technical act of editing a page for them (ie to rectify falsehoods). Millions of people are simply not allowed to be part of Wikipedia because of Jimmy's convoluted rules and tight-control of what is and isn't allowed.
Wikipedia has a famous "admin class" of anonymous, yet groupself and life-appointed people who ultimately decide what goes and what doesn’t. They follow the line that Mr. Jones is actually being “unethical†if he edits his own own article. For me that is something of a human rights abuse – esp as Wikipedia is absolutely full of filthy lies that only people in the know can properly correct (or at least attempt to balance).
People need to know that before Wikipedia Jimmy was a player in internet porn (via a company called Bomis) - he is really no modern 'hero' at all. In my personal opinion Jimmy's Foundation controls information the way the porn industry controls women – they call it liberating, but we must look underneath – and look philosophically ("ethically" if you will, Jimmy). And it also has to be said that Jimmy didn't invent anything – for many people he has simply taken tight control of a societal development that belongs to all of us: an online 'wiki' that is full of everything. All of us need to develop, control and improve it (ie does it have to cover “everything� - and esp like a Hello magazine crossed with Penthouse via the Daily Mail?) - not Jimmy Wales (who incidentally often promotes his for-profit 'Wikia' business) and the some-how charity-status WikiMedia Foundation.
Well done the Independent for not allowing Jimmy to bully them into saying he is the sole Founder of Wikipedia (at least not inside the main article).
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