Jimbo rubs it in San Jose's face Options

[thekohser]

Nobody wants to live in San José, not as an inherent thing.

-- Jimmy Wales (link)

I believe there are a few Wikipedians and WMF'ers who live in San Jose. How do they feel about Jimmy jetting off to London, kissing London's ass, then insulting the 10th-largest city in the United States?

[Somey]

Silicon Valley (aka Santa Clara County, CA) used to be known as "The Valley of the Heart's Delight." There was a lynching that took place there, back during the Depression (the first one, not the one we might be in now, depending on who your statistician is). There's a (bad) movie about the lynching using that as the title... I guess they stopped calling it that in the 1960's, but there are still some people calling it "The Valley of the Heart's Delight" even today, though I suspect they're mostly elderly types who are members of local historical societies and what-not.

Anyway... I would be shocked to learn that Jimbo knows any programming languages, or has ever come up with a genuinely sellable product idea completely on his own, or that he could even be described as a "technologist" by a real venture capitalist. Obviously, all that could be said of most people, but ultimately I'd have to agree with Mr. Vigilant - and if anything, what he said probably doesn't go far enough.

I suspect he's underestimating the gullibility of the London-based VC community, but it looks like he has the right girlfriend now for getting invited to all the right parties. Maybe ability and talent isn't really what it takes to succeed there, if you have the right connections.

[thekohser]

...I would be shocked to learn that Jimbo knows any programming languages...

...it looks like he has the right girlfriend now for getting invited to all the right parties...

I think he does actually dabble in programming -- he said he's learning Flash with his daughter Kira, when they're not doing Club Penguin. Also, here is Jimmy scanning some QR code.

As for that new girlfriend in the UK -- she's not just any old girlfriend, is she? She's the #2 baby momma! Which, by the way, I've never seen any Wikipediot dare ask Jimbo whether it was a boy or a girl. Isn't that a common question you ask of your friend who's recently had a baby?

[mbz1]

...I would be shocked to learn that Jimbo knows any programming languages...

...it looks like he has the right girlfriend now for getting invited to all the right parties...

I think he does actually dabble in programming -- he said he's learning Flash with his daughter Kira, when they're not doing Club Penguin. Also, here is Jimmy scanning some QR code.

As for that new girlfriend in the UK -- she's not just any old girlfriend, is she? She's the #2 baby momma! Which, by the way, I've never seen any Wikipediot dare ask Jimbo whether it was a boy or a girl. Isn't that a common question you ask of your friend who's recently had a baby?

Even one of the latest articles does not specify the gender of the baby

Wales has a new baby with his British fiancée, Kate Garvey, Tony Blair's former diary secretary who is now a director at Freud Communications, and is settling here. The pair met in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, after they were both made "Young Global Leaders", a title that he admits, with an un-American lack of self-promotion, is "ridiculous and pompous".

Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, Wales now plans to make the UK his main home. He says he is worn out after spending the past few days frantically house hunting in central London. Every fortnight he flies to Florida to see his daughter from his second marriage and he is constantly dashing between countries to work on expanding the website. "I'm trying to cut down on my travels," he says, guiltily.

But I am more interested in another quote from the same article, in particular this one:

Next month, it will start another campaign, with a target of £18m. Some of this will be spent on attracting a new type of contributor by making the site easier to edit for the less computer-literate.

I am not sure it is worth spending donated money to make wikipedia more friendly "for the less computer-literate" users. I mean in our time, if a person is so less "computer-literate" that he has difficulties in editing wikipedia the way it is now, would this person be any good asset for the web site anyway?

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