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_ The Wikimedia Foundation _ Make that $7000 troll go away!
Posted by: thekohser
Quick Jimbo, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=356795053!
Aww... you took a full 22 hours to make the painful truth go bye-bye, Jimbo. You're slipping.
Posted by: trenton
I'm impressed. 22 hours and one of the jimbophants didn't remove it.
Posted by: BelovedFox
Where exactly *did* this info come from? If "someone" said it, I'd expect to know who. It looks like trolling to me.
Posted by: thekohser
QUOTE(BelovedFox @ Mon 19th April 2010, 1:02pm) 
Where exactly *did* this info come from? If "someone" said it, I'd expect to know who. It looks like trolling to me.
Source would be the Wikimedia Foundation's second employee, http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-for-nothing-chicks-for-free.html.
The Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-03-03/Wales%27_relationship_with_journalist, so you know it is true.
Posted by: BelovedFox
QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 19th April 2010, 5:12pm)
QUOTE(BelovedFox @ Mon 19th April 2010, 1:02pm)
Where exactly *did* this info come from? If "someone" said it, I'd expect to know who. It looks like trolling to me.
Source would be the Wikimedia Foundation's second employee, http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-for-nothing-chicks-for-free.html.
The Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-03-03/Wales%27_relationship_with_journalist, so you know it is true.
Ah. I thought this was something new, not that old news
Posted by: GlassBeadGame
QUOTE(BelovedFox @ Mon 19th April 2010, 7:00pm)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 19th April 2010, 5:12pm)
QUOTE(BelovedFox @ Mon 19th April 2010, 1:02pm)
Where exactly *did* this info come from? If "someone" said it, I'd expect to know who. It looks like trolling to me.
Source would be the Wikimedia Foundation's second employee, http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-for-nothing-chicks-for-free.html.
The Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-03-03/Wales%27_relationship_with_journalist, so you know it is true.
Ah. I thought this was something new, not that old news
Well they took the card away from him. How could he do it again, idiot? So Greg put up. Now go shut up.
Posted by: Milton Roe
QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 19th April 2010, 10:12am)
QUOTE(BelovedFox @ Mon 19th April 2010, 1:02pm)
Where exactly *did* this info come from? If "someone" said it, I'd expect to know who. It looks like trolling to me.
Source would be the Wikimedia Foundation's second employee, http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-for-nothing-chicks-for-free.html.
The Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-03-03/Wales%27_relationship_with_journalist, so you know it is true.
Lil Screwup Number Nine
I didn't know what cash was mine or yours,
I started taking Russian trains for whores,
But when I had my steak
With seven hundred worth of wine,
They took my credit card--said:
"Next time it's on your dime."
Posted by: Text
It is generally said that when someone becomes rich out of nowhere, the wealth he or she has accumulated was accumulated with the use of not so legal means. How did Jimbo manage to be rich? His autobiography says "speculating on interest-rate and foreign-currency fluctuations". He managed to support his wife and himself for the rest of their life with the constant change of dollars to euro, and euro to dollars?
Posted by: thekohser
QUOTE(Text @ Thu 9th September 2010, 6:14am)
It is generally said that when someone becomes rich out of nowhere, the wealth he or she has accumulated was accumulated with the use of not so legal means. How did Jimbo manage to be rich? His autobiography says "speculating on interest-rate and foreign-currency fluctuations". He managed to support his wife and himself for the rest of their life with the constant change of dollars to euro, and euro to dollars?
The notion of Wales earning enough on currency speculation models to "support his wife and himself for the rest of their life" is rather a myth. This came out in http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/jimmy-wales-net-worth related to the divorce of said wife.
Posted by: Emperor
QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 5th December 2011, 9:31am)
QUOTE(Text @ Thu 9th September 2010, 6:14am)
It is generally said that when someone becomes rich out of nowhere, the wealth he or she has accumulated was accumulated with the use of not so legal means. How did Jimbo manage to be rich? His autobiography says "speculating on interest-rate and foreign-currency fluctuations". He managed to support his wife and himself for the rest of their life with the constant change of dollars to euro, and euro to dollars?
The notion of Wales earning enough on currency speculation models to "support his wife and himself for the rest of their life" is rather a myth. This came out in http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/jimmy-wales-net-worth related to the divorce of said wife.
Holy cow! The "rest of their lives" independent wealth claim seems to finally be gone! Congratulations http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&action=historysubmit&diff=442013949&oldid=440033822 on one of the most important BLPs in Wikipedia. What did it take, about five years?
Yes kids, this means reality has changed:
The two founders of Wikipedia were not independently wealthy at the time Wikipedia was created.
Note to future wiki writers: just because an article in Wired magazine says something, doesn't mean it's true (I'd be hoping your sixth grade teachers or your mom and dad would tell you that, but better to learn it late than never).