Let's not also forget his other fantastic business ventures -- Openserving, Wikia Search, CiviliNation, Impossible.com, and The People's Operator!

The sooner you understand that Jimmy's agenda is "more money in Jimmy's wallet", the sooner you will be able to figure out the plan with Wikitribune (owned by "Jimmy Group Ltd").

The difference being -- Jimmy can't skim money off the top of Wikinews (so they are immaterial to him). He can skim money off the top of all these rubes donating to Wikitribune, because the money is all going to (I kid you not) "Jimmy Group Ltd". He is a shyster of the first order.

Also, due to Wikinews being non-profit, Jimbo can't skim an income off the top. With Wikitribune (owned by "Jimmy Group Ltd" -- I kid you not), all of the money will be in Jimbo's wallet, and he'll dole it out as he sees fit.

And painfully accurate. How about Jimbo's plan to "fix" mean and ugly Internet comments? That was something called CiviliNation, a failed non-profit he set up with his girlfriend (not sure he was even divorced at the time). On Reddit a few days ago, this was mentioned, and Jimbo insisted that he was the "primary funder" of CiviliNation. Let's see... 2010 Form 990: $25,420 in contributions; 2011: $12,240; 2012: $15,500; 2013: $24,568; 2014: $4,700. All summarized here: https://projects.propublica.or... That's a total of $82,428. If Jimbo were the "primary funder", let's say that's at least 50%, or $41,215. So, if he donated over $41K to CiviliNation, during a period that his gal-pal Weckerle took $63,228 in salary, and there were total contributions of $82,428, he's basically saying he bankrolled most of Andrea Weckerle's personal income from CiviliNation, with tax-deductible dollars. Which accomplished what? CiviliNation.org is barely a functioning website any more -- the last blog post was 13 months ago. Jimbo was so charitably inept that he forked over -- at a minimum -- $41,215 to a failed attempt to "fix" online civility that ultimately accomplished not much more than keeping his girlfriend Andrea in food, clothes, and shelter for a few years. With tax-deductible dollars, no less! And now he wants us to fund his *FOR-PROFIT* plan to "fix" journalism? It's just sad. And pathetic.

The government that I pay taxes to has exempted this money-making scam as an "educational charity". If the scam artists are getting a tax exemption, while I have to pay full freight to the government, then that frankly gives me the right to do something more than just "don't use it".

I'm curious, would you call this known scandal to be "ridiculous theorising"?

http://wikipediocracy.com/2014...

I'm one of the comparatively few editors of Wikipedia who gets paid for my editing work. It only makes sense that as a "thank you", I should send a token of financial appreciation at fundraising time. Yet, when I try to send the Wikimedia Foundation a donation, they return it to me within the hour.

Even if they are reliable at serving up content, it's still content that is highly suspect in terms of accuracy. One systematic survey of vandalism showed the thoughtfully-formatted vandalism will last at least for weeks, over 60% of the time: http://wikipediocracy.com/2015...

It would seem to suggest that artificial actors have more emotional stability than your average Wikipediot, I guess.

Anyone see the hypocrisy of a politician who wants to restore an elective democratic government, so that it can champion gun-control laws and climate remediation, hiring an avowed anti-government, pro-gun Libertarian to rattle the cup for the politician? There will certainly be thousands of nitwits duped into giving money to this campaign, but the majority of observers will see it for what it is -- a fundraising drive for the personal aggrandizement of Lessig and Wales, which is *disguised* as a political movement.

Before you keep throwing money at the Wikimedia Foundation, educate yourself on whether they actually NEED any more money: http://wikipediocracy.com/2015...

Couldn't be more wrong about the "dollars counting", I'm afraid. See this: http://wikipediocracy.com/2015...

I should add that much of the documentation of these linkages between Wales and Blair was achieved by Andreas Kolbe, who just happens to be the man who Jimmy Wales banned from Wales' Wikipedia Talk page, for discussing Wales' relationship with Blair! It's rather a hypocritical move for the man who espouses "public and open information".