User:CptCutLess/Sandbox
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Hello, this is CptCutLess' Sandbox. This is where he will be putting any drafts he happens to make.
[edit] Media and honors
- Mid-2005 – Wales is appointed as a member of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
- October 3, 2005 – According to a press release, Wales joins the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses.
- 2006 – Wales joins the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Creative Commons.[1]
- May 8, 2006 – Wales is the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the May 8, 2006 special edition of Time ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing 100 influential people.[2]
- June 3, 2006 – Wales receives an honorary degree from Knox College.
- May 3, 2006 – The Electronic Frontier Foundation awards him a Pioneer Award.[3]
- October 6, 2006 – Wales appears on PBS' Charlie Rose.[4] and was nominated for Beard of the Year 2006.[5]
- January 23, 2007 – Forbes magazine ranks Wales twelfth in its first annual "The Web Celebs 25".[6]
- April 2, 2007 – Wales is featured in the April 2, 2007 issue of Time magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales". He answers ten questions culled from Time's readership. His is the second interview to consist of reader questions (the first being Chris Rock). Previously, the questions had been composed by a Time staff member. In his replies, he acknowledges the limitations of Wikipedia, while defending its usefulness.[7]
- April 26, 2007 – Wales has a run-in with The Chaser, an Australian satire group. He is used in the first occurrence of the "Mr. Ten Questions" segment in Season 2 of The Chaser's War on Everything, in which a "reporter" (a.k.a. Andrew Hansen) asks the victim ten questions of variable relevance without pausing for a response until all questions are asked. Wales manages to score a 4 out of 10; however, some of the answers did not seem to match the questions being asked. Hansen also states that he edited Wales' page to state that he was a teenage drug lord from Malaysia. This change has since been reverted.[8]
[edit] Personal philosophy
Wales is a self-avowed "Objectivist to the core", to the extent of having named his daughter Kira after the heroine in Ayn Rand's We the Living,[9] although he says, "I think I do a better job — than a lot of people who self-identify as Objectivists — of not pushing my point of view on other people."[10] When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on C-SPAN's Q&A about Rand, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a libertarian, qualifying his remark by referring to the Libertarian Party as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles.[11] From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy."[12] An interview with Wales served as the cover feature of the June 2007 issue of the libertarian magazine Reason.
Wales is credited with operating his business frugally as well as living frugally, as noted by his choice of driving a Hyundai instead of a Ferrari, which he previously drove. He attempts to use his mobile phone in Europe sparingly because of the high rates charged.[13]
On December 6, 2007, Wales, while at the Online Information conference in London's Olympia, stated that teachers who prohibit students from citing Wikipedia are "bad educators". Wales reasoned that new editing and checking procedures make Wikipedia more reliable.[14]
