Let me make this clear from the top: I'm not a Jimmy Wales hater. He's actually a fairly effective high profile administrator and fundraiser. I think his personal politics are sketchy, but he came from the South and I'm enough of a Wikipedian to be able to Assume Good Faith. At least a little. That said, I've recently come across something that will bring such entertainment to The Haters that it seems criminal not to share it. Jimmy Wales, it seems, is a very poor Content Creator.
The Edit Count function shows a person spending more than half his edits on his own User Talk page, which is without precedent or equal, I presume:
PIE CHARTNow look closely: That's 1,536 edits to mainspace, from the beginning of The Project to the moment I'm posting this piece of crap WR bit more than a decade later. Wrap your head around that. 1,500 edits is about a month and a half's worth of work for a dedicated Content Creator...
Now here's where it gets fun. Take a peek at the
ARTICLES CREATED read-out...
Exactly 22 pieces created, since the time of the lowest low-hanging fruit in 2001 to this day. Isn't that a little mindblowing?
The one I like best is this: Jimmy Wales is the originator of the Wikipedia article on the M-16 rifle!
But wait, there's more. Here's the way he left it, back on my birthday in 2001:
DA LINKThat would be speedy deleted out the door under some pretext or another today...
Obviously, standards have changed since then, but it is a bit of a comical thing, is it not?
Bottom line: Jimmy Wales may be the founder (and may or may not be a swell person), but him taking credit for Wikpedia is a little like a guy who used to use red spray paint on craft projects in his garage in Akron taking credit for the custom paintjob on a 2012 Porsche.
tim
This post has been edited by timbo: Fri 10th February 2012, 5:04am
The Founder as Editor
timbo The Founder as Editor Fri 10th February 2012, 5:00am
Fri 10th February 2012, 5:00am
