{"id":20623,"date":"2025-10-27T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/people-thought-i-was-a-communist-doing-this-as-a-non-profit-is-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-the-last-decent-tech-baron\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:38:10","slug":"people-thought-i-was-a-communist-doing-this-as-a-non-profit-is-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-the-last-decent-tech-baron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/people-thought-i-was-a-communist-doing-this-as-a-non-profit-is-wikipedias-jimmy-wales-the-last-decent-tech-baron\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit\u2019: is Wikipedia\u2019s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people\u2019s encyclopedia stands out \u2013 a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk branding it \u2018Wokipedia\u2019 and AI looming large, can it survive?<\/p>\n

Wikipedia will be 25 years old in January. Jimmy Wales\u2019s daughter will be 25 and three weeks. It\u2019s not a coincidence: on Boxing Day 2000 Wales\u2019s then wife, Christine, gave birth to a baby girl, but it quickly became clear that something wasn\u2019t right. She had breathed in contaminated amniotic fluid, resulting in a life-threatening condition called meconium aspiration syndrome. An experimental treatment was available at the hospital near where they lived in San Diego. Did\u00a0they want to try it?<\/p>\n

At the time, Wales was a former trader and internet entrepreneur in his mid-30s. He had co-founded a \u201cguy-oriented search engine\u201d called Bomis, but his real passion was encyclopedias. The money from Bomis had allowed him to found Nupedia, a free online encyclopedia written by experts \u2013 but it was proving slow to get off the ground. The laborious process of peer review meant that it only managed to generate 21 articles in its first year (among them \u201cDonegal fiddle tradition\u201d and \u201cpolymerase chain reaction\u201d).<\/p>\n

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\nIn an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people\u2019s encyclopedia stands out \u2013 a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk branding it \u2018Wokipedia\u2019 and AI looming large, can it survive?
\nWikipedia will be 25 years old in January. Jimmy Wales\u2019s daughter will be 25 and three weeks. It\u2019s not a coincidence: on Boxing Day 2000 Wales\u2019s then wife, Christine, gave birth to a baby girl, but it quickly became clear that something wasn\u2019t right. She had breathed in contaminated amniotic fluid, resulting in a life-threatening condition called meconium aspiration syndrome. An experimental treatment was available at the hospital near where they lived in San Diego. Did\u00a0they want to try it?
\nAt the time, Wales was a former trader and internet entrepreneur in his mid-30s. He had co-founded a \u201cguy-oriented search engine\u201d called Bomis, but his real passion was encyclopedias. The money from Bomis had allowed him to found Nupedia, a free online encyclopedia written by experts \u2013 but it was proving slow to get off the ground. The laborious process of peer review meant that it only managed to generate 21 articles in its first year (among them \u201cDonegal fiddle tradition\u201d and \u201cpolymerase chain reaction\u201d). Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people\u2019s encyclopedia stands out \u2013 a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk branding it \u2018Wokipedia\u2019 and AI looming large, can it survive? Wikipedia will be 25 years old in January. Jimmy Wales\u2019s daughter will …<\/p>\n

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