Jimbo Wales vs. Oliver Kamm, ...get your popcorn Options Rating

[thekohser]

Step 1:
Read this guest column in the Times of London:

Step 2:
Read Jimbo's response on the WikiEN mailing list:
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:23:55 -0400
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Times article (London)
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

> "The notion that a false claim to knowledge is wrong is not part of
> Wikipedia's culture."

This is preposterous.

> "It combines the free-market dogmatism of the libertarian Right with
> the anti-intellectualism of the populist Left. "

Nonsense.

It is hard to know how to coherently respond to ignorant ranting which
appears to make no attempt to even connect at any point with the facts
of reality.

--Jimbo

Step 3:
Sit back and watch how Oliver Kamm (a noted radical intellectual and financial expert who has sparred with Noam Chomsky) tears open Jimmy Wales in the next few weeks. Pop some popcorn!

[Kato]

Der Jimbo's WikiEN-l response to Kamm's "ignorant ranting" has been added to the Kamm article! (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/biggrin.gif)

Kamm will certainly read this. And if I know Kamm, he'll make it his business to follow it up with a heap of mud and arrows aimed at Der Jimbo's direction. Kamm's also someone who knows his way round a courtroom, and likes a challenge. I couldn't imagine a better match. Kamm vs Der Jimbo. Two of the most detestable internet "celebrities" flapping at each other for our pleasure. It's a no lose situation. Long may it continue and flourish.

By the way, is it me or is Der Jimbo getting more and more intolerant?

In case noone noticed Grace Note aka Dr Zen commented on Kamm's article.

I commented too, mentioning BADSITES and WR. Probably really infuriated the clique, if they saw it.

I spotted it before you mentioned it here, so good work.