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My name is Jimbo Wales and I am the founder of Misplaced Pages and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Contacts
Press Inquiries: Please leave a message with my assistant Danny in the USA at +1 727 231 0101, and I will get back to you. Please use that number for press inquiries only! I am not joking about this. Other inquiries to that phone number will be ignored.
You will probably be joyful after you contact the help desk. Remember, if you're with the press, please call Danny at the number above.
Other inquiries can be sent by e-mail to jwales at wikia dot com. (Press inquiries by e-mail are also always welcome.) To make sure I see your e-mail, the best way to slip it by my spam filters is to mention Misplaced Pages in the subject or body of the e-mail.
My itinerary
These are the voyages of Jimbo Wales. Go there to find out more!
Meetups
Here are the Misplaced Pages meetups (which are awesome!) I have attended:
Quotes
- “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” – Slashdot interview
You may edit this page
Really, you can! :o)
This is my user page. I like to keep it a certain way. But, the thing is, I trust you. I trust that you'll add something here that makes me smile, that informs me, or that helps to inform others. If I have things in a certain format, I trust that you will respect that format. Actually, scratch that. Since this page is so simple and ugly, my ultimate dream is that some person who thinks it is fun will come along and make it look as perfect as Angela's user page. See that link up there: 'edit this page'? Go for it. It's a wiki world! – Jimbo
Note that quite a few Wikipedians watch my user page and will edit mercilessly or even remove altogether any alterations made. This is a wiki, after all.
Comments on how this page currently looks should be directed to this talk page.
Public comments from users who have edited this page
Thank you for Misplaced Pages , it is an amazing resource and makes so much knowledge available to so many people ! Its great :D , keep up the good work! Vince Larue - Paladin 22:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I have installed the MediaWiki software on my own Linux box and noticed that Misplaced Pages apparently customed its installation so as to remove a prime default feature that would automate email notifications to users when a page on their watchlist is changed! I know this was probably done in order to save the wear & tear on the CPUs, harddrives and bandwidth, but it is such a loss for the users. Automation is everything today. Jimbo, you might consider implementing that feature for a small fee. The more dedicated Wikipedians will certainly want to subscribe, and once they do, the ones dedicated to a lesser degree would likely follow as they would notice they would be handicapped. And if this isn't a good reason to implement this automation....seriously consider that Third Party software will start to come around that will begin to monitor your pages. And if you procrastinate on this, and wait until dedicated Wikipedians are already using Third Party monitoring to begin your own fee-based automation....I will leave the consequences to your imagination. I think this scenario is inevitable for all Wikis on the Internet. People want automation for the convenience and time-savings. - Diligens 10:54, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
This site is ridiculously amazing. I love the vast amounts of information and the simplicity! - Larry Bod
Dangerously addictive - Smerus 19:37, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
This site is one of the best sites ever, seriously.- Rhyne
Thanks a million, Jimbo! Great site and wonderful software; it fulfills all of my needs! eszett 18:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
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