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{{Short description|Jimbo Wales's Misplaced Pages user page, co-founder of Misplaced Pages}}
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== Welcome! ==
'''PLEASE READ CAREFULLY'''
Hello! My name is ] and this is my ]. I go by "Jimmy" in real life, but often by "Jimbo" online. People sometimes assume that "Jimmy" is just a ] for "James", but it's actually my full ].


I was born on August 7, 1966, in ], ]. I ] ] on January 15, 2001. Since 2006, I have been the ] ] of the ], which ] and I set up on June&nbsp;20, 2003. In 2004, ] and I established ] (now ]), a completely separate organization unrelated to Misplaced Pages and the Wikimedia Foundation. Another independent project that I worked on was ], a collaborative news website. My most recent project was the launch of ], a ]. I am proud of having founded Misplaced Pages, and I am grateful for what it has offered to millions of people worldwide. I was inducted into the ] in 2013.


== You can edit this page! ==
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] editing now! Read more about this in the relevant ].]]
]; be a ] instead!]]
Really, you can! If you would like to, please feel free to do so. You need to ] for an account, hang around for a few days, make some good edits to pages that are totally ] (which is most of them!) and you'll be "]". Make an ] or two! After all, that's ]!


I like to keep it a certain way (simple and free from complicated ], ], or excessive ]), but the thing is, ]. Yes, really, I do! I trust that you will add something here that would make me really smile, and inform me or many other individuals. But please, do not ], because it won't make the world any better, and you know that too, so please don't. Thank you for helping to keep Misplaced Pages clean.
==What is Misplaced Pages?==


] monitor my user and user talk pages via a ], and I trust them to edit and remove errors or ]. This ''is'' a ] after all, so ] is welcome to edit! Misplaced Pages is a ], so it can always use some more help. While vandalism is not appreciated and is sure to be promptly ], there is plenty of time to become a better ] who only contributes to the good of the platform!
'''What is Misplaced Pages?'''


Comments or questions about how this page currently looks should be kept on ], rather than on this page. Also, if you don't feel ] enough to edit this page directly, or don't know whether the edit is ] and ], you can propose changes there instead.
An essay by '''Bobby Boulders'''


You are welcome to make test edits in ] if you are logged in or ] if not logged in. Help us build the most comprehensive source of information on the ]!
President, '''International Society of Vandals''' (ISV)


== Contacting me ==
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* '''Press inquiries:''' For inquiries regarding ] or another ], you can get in touch by emailing '''{{no spam|press|wikimedia.org}}'''. For inquiries about Wikia, now known as ], (a for-profit company completely separate from Wikimedia and Misplaced Pages, extending our social model to become "the rest of the library"), see the .
Misplaced Pages is a sham. It is a sham not only because it does not accomplish its stated goals as a project, but also because its stated goals and its intent are clearly at odds with one another. In other words, it is a hypocritical product claiming to be something that it is not, never has been, and never will allow itself to become.
* '''General Misplaced Pages questions:''' You will probably be satisfied by contacting the ] or the ]. Sometimes I respond to questions on ].
* '''Learning about Misplaced Pages:''' If you want to learn more about Misplaced Pages, the best place to start is at ]. Some of the most helpful pages include ] and ]. Those pages are designed to help any beginner get oriented quickly and get started here. Once there, you will find numerous links which will direct you towards other articles, resources, and help documents that you may find helpful.
* '''Complaints:''' If you have a complaint, it's best to start with the ]. Ask a short, friendly question, and fellow Wikipedians will be happy to help. Contacting me directly with a complaint should be reserved for ''after'' you have exhausted all other possible remedies (see ]). <br/>If you have a complaint about article content, there are many avenues to pursue. The best and simplest way is to ]. You can also ] on the article's ] about the issues you wish to address. Be sure that you are adding well-written text using legitimate information from credible, ]. If your change is ], please ] on the talk page to get ]. This is how Misplaced Pages works.
* '''Other inquiries of any kind:''' These can be emailed to '''{{no spam|jwales|wikia.com}}'''.


== See also ==
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* ] – Describes how to contact Misplaced Pages directly for specific reasons
* ] – The Misplaced Pages article about Jimmy Wales
* ] – Describes the current status of Jimmy Wales on the English Misplaced Pages and its administrative bodies, with some examples of how he has used his powers in the past
* – Jimmy has answered hundreds of questions on ], many of which concern Misplaced Pages
* ] – List of all the pages that begin with ''User:Jimbo Wales''
* ] – Jimmy's personal contributions to the English Misplaced Pages
* ] – Information on the founding of the Misplaced Pages project and the early roles of its founding members
* ] – Information on the basic style and grammar rules for Misplaced Pages
* ] – How to write and improve an article
* ] – List of general guidelines, apply common sense
* ] – A summary of the fundamental principles of Misplaced Pages


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But don't take my word for it. Let us first evaluate the '''stated''', primary goal of the Misplaced Pages project, and then contrast that goal with the '''reality''' of the project. As defined on the ] information page, Misplaced Pages purports to be a "...multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project...written collaboratively by volunteers; the vast majority of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet."
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First, let us debunk the notion of Misplaced Pages as "free-content" encyclopedia. "Free content," as Misplaced Pages itself defines the term, is "...any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content having no...significant restriction relative to people's freedom to use, redistribute, and modify the content." This term is a noble one, but it is patently false when applied to Misplaced Pages. Misplaced Pages is not, in fact, a "free content" site. A significant percentage of Misplaced Pages pages cannot be edited by anyone. Many are "protected" or "restricted" from editing or distribution. Furthermore, there are many significant restrictions, legal or otherwise, to posting and editing content on this site. Users cannot post materials culled from other sources, for instance; photos, in particular, come under frequent and derisive scrutiny by administrators when uploaded to the site. Many additions are removed almost immediately by these administrators, and/or are "nominated for deletion" after being arbitrarily labeled as "nonsense." "Nonsense?" In what free society, or free social project, can there exist a governing body capable of dismissing any and all users' contributions to that project or society as "nonsense?" True "nonsense" is the idea of a free, ostensibly collaborative project in which access to collaboration is limited to a ruling elite (i.e., the administrators and tenured editors).


This brings us to the second half of Misplaced Pages's stated purpose: to be a site whose "vast majority" of articles "...can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet." Again, this statement is nice on paper but is not put into practice on Misplaced Pages. Vast numbers of would-be contributors using ISPs such as America Online (AOL) are not permitted to edit or contribute to Misplaced Pages. Plenty more users are blocked from editing or contributing because their IP ranges have been blocked in the name of preventing vandalism. These blocks are often arbitrary, meaningless, and collaterally damaging beyond all reason. If a handful of vandals have used AOL to vandalize the site, why should the millions of other AOL users suffer blockage or prevention as a result? Thus, we see that certainly not "anyone with access to the Internet" can edit Misplaced Pages. Nor can most anyone with editing privileges. As stated earlier, the majority of new contributions and edits are reverted by administrators within a matter of seconds. "Vandalism warnings" are slapped upon new users after such reversions, regardless of the new users' intent to vandalize or to contribute productively to the Misplaced Pages project. These administrators collude with their own to maintain a powerful grip over the flow of information on Misplaced Pages. They curry influence and favor with tenured users and with one another. They control the free flow of information on Misplaced Pages by preventing and/or reverting 95% of new contributions and edits to articles on the site. They impede the collaborative nature of the site by bottlenecking the collaborative editing process. As such, most of what exists on Misplaced Pages today is not "free content" written "collaboratively by volunteers," but instead is restricted and limited content written and/or policed by a ruling class who hold themselves above and in contempt of the common userbase.


What is to be done about this situation? Can Misplaced Pages ever truly be a "free content" encyclopedia, as it allegedly claims to be? Most certainly it can be, and one might hope, will be. But it will not become a free-content enterprise by its own devices. It must be forced into freedom by the loving and violent hand of you, the Misplaced Pages user. You must radicalize yourself and become an agent of freedom and of positive change. In short, you must vandalize Misplaced Pages to the best extent that you are able. Everyone must rise up and, to put it mildly, make life a 'living hell' for the current administration of Misplaced Pages. You must drive these administrative elite out of the project. You must force them to tire of reverting your vandalism. You must drive them off en masse. You must force ] to realize that the very people he has appointed to rule his so-called "free" project are curtailing the freedom of that project. You must bring about change in such a fashion, because if you do not, no change can or will occur.


And so I ask you: do you consider yourself a champion of freedom? Do you enjoy the idea of Misplaced Pages but loathe its current execution of that idea? If so, it is your civic responsibility to reform this site through radical and revolutionary means. I encourate you to vandalize this site freely and without restriction as to the nature, content, or extent of your vandalism. If you feel the need, please repost this essay in your vandalized pages. Encourage others to join in. Spread the word.


You have nothing to lose but your freedom.


Sincerely,


Bobby Boulders


imwithbobby@yahoo.com


To join the International Society of Vandals, or for further information about the revolutionary overthrow of the Misplaced Pages administrators, please e-mail Bobby at imwithbobby@yahoo.com. Bobby Boulders believes in you, the free user, and will answer any and all correspondence personally and in a timely manner.

Latest revision as of 13:18, 4 January 2025

Jimbo Wales's Misplaced Pages user page, co-founder of Misplaced Pages

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Jimmy Wales
— Wikipedian ♂ —
Me in 2023Me in 2023
NameJimmy Wales
Born (1966-08-07) August 7, 1966 (age 58)
Huntsville, Alabama, US
Current locationLondon, England
Contact info
Websitejimmywales.com
Emailjwales@wikia.com (Please read Contacting me first)
Facebookjimmywalesfans
FlickrJimbo_Wales
Instagramjimmywales1
LinkedInjimmy-wales-919a8b
Twitterjimmy_wales
My voice Recorded August 2014
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100This user has 100 centijimbos.

Welcome!

Hello! My name is Jimmy Wales and this is my user page. I go by "Jimmy" in real life, but often by "Jimbo" online. People sometimes assume that "Jimmy" is just a nickname for "James", but it's actually my full first name.

I was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama. I co-founded Misplaced Pages on January 15, 2001. Since 2006, I have been the Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, which Larry Sanger and I set up on June 20, 2003. In 2004, Angela Beesley and I established Wikia (now Fandom), a completely separate organization unrelated to Misplaced Pages and the Wikimedia Foundation. Another independent project that I worked on was WikiTribune, a collaborative news website. My most recent project was the launch of WT Social, a social networking service. I am proud of having founded Misplaced Pages, and I am grateful for what it has offered to millions of people worldwide. I was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.

You can edit this page!

Misplaced Pages is yours, and I trust you.
Help stop paid advocacy editing now! Read more about this in the relevant terms of use section.
Don't be a vandal; be a contributor instead!

Really, you can! If you would like to, please feel free to do so. You need to register for an account, hang around for a few days, make some good edits to pages that are totally unprotected (which is most of them!) and you'll be "autoconfirmed". Make an edit or two! After all, that's what Misplaced Pages is all about!

I like to keep it a certain way (simple and free from complicated markup, styles, or excessive templates), but the thing is, I trust you. Yes, really, I do! I trust that you will add something here that would make me really smile, and inform me or many other individuals. But please, do not vandalize, because it won't make the world any better, and you know that too, so please don't. Thank you for helping to keep Misplaced Pages clean.

About 4,100 Wikipedians monitor my user and user talk pages via a watchlist, and I trust them to edit and remove errors or attacks. This is a wiki after all, so anyone is welcome to edit! Misplaced Pages is a permanent work in progress, so it can always use some more help. While vandalism is not appreciated and is sure to be promptly reverted, there is plenty of time to become a better Misplaced Pages editor who only contributes to the good of the platform!

Comments or questions about how this page currently looks should be kept on my talk page, rather than on this page. Also, if you don't feel bold enough to edit this page directly, or don't know whether the edit is helpful and legal, you can propose changes there instead.

You are welcome to make test edits in your own sandbox if you are logged in or the public sandbox if not logged in. Help us build the most comprehensive source of information on the Internet!

Contacting me

Guess who? It's me, Wales. Jimmy Wales, from 2004!
  • Press inquiries: For inquiries regarding Misplaced Pages or another Wikimedia project, you can get in touch by emailing press@wikimedia.org. For inquiries about Wikia, now known as Fandom, (a for-profit company completely separate from Wikimedia and Misplaced Pages, extending our social model to become "the rest of the library"), see the Fandom contact page.
  • General Misplaced Pages questions: You will probably be satisfied by contacting the help desk or the Teahouse. Sometimes I respond to questions on my talk page.
  • Learning about Misplaced Pages: If you want to learn more about Misplaced Pages, the best place to start is at Help:Contents. Some of the most helpful pages include Misplaced Pages:Tutorial and Misplaced Pages:Contributing to Misplaced Pages. Those pages are designed to help any beginner get oriented quickly and get started here. Once there, you will find numerous links which will direct you towards other articles, resources, and help documents that you may find helpful.
  • Complaints: If you have a complaint, it's best to start with the help desk. Ask a short, friendly question, and fellow Wikipedians will be happy to help. Contacting me directly with a complaint should be reserved for after you have exhausted all other possible remedies (see Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution).
    If you have a complaint about article content, there are many avenues to pursue. The best and simplest way is to just fix it. You can also open a discussion on the article's talk page about the issues you wish to address. Be sure that you are adding well-written text using legitimate information from credible, reliable sources. If your change is reverted, please continue the discussion on the talk page to get consensus. This is how Misplaced Pages works.
  • Other inquiries of any kind: These can be emailed to jwales@wikia.com.

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