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Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment Jimmy Wales, "you know, the Wikipedia and Wikia guy", giving a keynote at SEE'09 With my tweet I'd been hoping to get a feel for opinion on the Wikipedia, Wikimedia and Wikia founder.... [05 Nov 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Another of Wales' online projects is Wikia - a free web-hosting service for wikis funded by adverts. Less successful was the 2008 attempt to create a crowdsourced search engine - Wikia Search, but this... [08 Oct 2009]
Wikia Search killed off in economic gloom
News Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia and driving force behind Wikia Search, fully expected the... [01 Apr 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Or as one judge puts it: "For all its faults, the wiki idea has shown how groups of people can work together without knowing each other, without the need for meetings, without the need for interminable discussions back and forth in... [07 Oct 2008]
Wikia Search goes live but results are "pretty bad"
News An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled this week and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been overwhelmingly negative. Instead of arriving on the web pre-loaded with... [08 Jan 2008]
Wikia Search ready for launch
News Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on 7 January, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales. In an email sent to the Wikia Search mailing list on 24 December,... [03 Jan 2008]
Wikipedia's Wales hypes open-source search plan
News The people behind the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia have launched Wikia: a project to develop a search engine, crawlers and other indexing tools through a collaborative, open source process. Contributors are... [01 May 2007]
