Please Read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia Founder... erm... Who?

He has a vision.

O HAI GAISE. I'M JIMMY WALES AND I BROUGHT A REVOLUTIONARY TECHNIQUE TO THE INTERNET. Yeh, I let you guys use it for free for a while, and some nice people had the choice to donate some money to it if they thought it was worth something.
It was all well and good back in the day, when people had an ounce of compassion to see their fellow internetter slaving away, revolutionising the way that everyone used the internet, associating relevant articles by links in all one place. Genius. But now I guess we're taking it for granted, no one has the free money or time to donate and this guy's getting hungry. So that's why his face is all over the place!

www.wikipedia.org. Pick your language

I mean, I love wikipedia as much as the next person. It's cool and pretty much tells you what you want to know. And the best thing about it (get this) is that you can actually edit the information as new discoveries are made or old theories disproved. I guess we all know the whole function of wikipedia really, and it's just sad that it gets abused. But you know who gets abused more than George Bush Jnr's page did when they let security down for 30 seconds? Mr Jimmy Wales. Poor kid.

I guess he is an information anthropologist. Bringing the whole of the world's inforrmation into one place? What a fantastic idea! But how many entries does China have (if any. Actually, does it even have a wiki?) and how do you know that everything isn't completely biassed? Jimmy Wales faced all of these problems when he first realised the concept of information for everybody. Just I don't think that everybody is ready for information yet, or those who are already rather informed are concerned about mis-informing the less-informed. Or maybe the converse is precise and this tool of what seems like factual goodwill is a hate-producing propaganda machine!
So that's why teachers never really like you to reference from wikipedia.

Mr Jimmy Wales. Always Jimmy Wales because
he doesn't like people to think he's not friendly 

Mister Jimmy Wales was born on August the 7th, 1966, which means that he's 45 now and was born under the sign of Leo. There is a general belief that those born under leo are headstrong and outgoing, and Mr Jimmy Wales is no exception. Having married twice and having one daughter, times are tough too for Mr Wales in these austere times, yet he has coped well with the past couple of years of this recession by living off his life savings. I think he may still have some left, but not enough to last past the impending triple dip that we're coming up to.

He went to three top universities (yes, not one, nor two, but three) just to make sure that he could super-cram his head full of stuff. I'm not really sure how reliable this information all is seeing as I got it from Mr Wale's website myself, and he could've written anything about himself. I know you should never trust anyone on the internet, but I am going to accidentally-on-purpose put the smallest amount of faith in the guy who wrote the article. Apparently he'd been toying with the "free encyclopedia" idea since the 1990's, and finally set up "Nupedia" in 2000 because he realised that a lot more people were now on the internet.

What was going through his mind as he did this? Was it the fact that he was sick of waiting around one of the three university  libraries, trawling through pages and pages for one snippet of information? Why not put it all in one easy place? Fair enough. The amazing fact though is that it was FREE to all users. No monthly subscriptions or anything like that, so perfect for students around the world. Who wants to pay for information anyway?

Poorly puppies are crappy sleepers.

But he never thought about the profit. It's all well and good in the fatter years where people are willing to throw their money away on anything. In fact, some people would throw money at the most ridiculous things so that they can avoid throwing money at other things. All in all, nobody cares, wiki gets money. However when you're trying to plan your household budget with £12.43 to last you the rest of the week and your dog needs a trip to the animal dentist for a root canal (ridiculous, I know it sounds, but dogs howling in vast pain keeping you up all night are certainly worth the trip and expense of the animal dentist), you just don't have any pennies spare to give to Mr Jimmy Wales' internet knowledge fund.

Jimmy Wales' austerity measures.

Mr Wales 2011, posting on his blog:
"O SHIT GUYS. JUST FOUND OUT THAT WIKI BOOKS AREN'T BALANCING. WHERE HAVE ALL OF YOUR DONATIONS GONE? KEEP THEM COMING IN, WHY HAVE YOU STOPPED? Is there a problem with the service, because if so, we will do our best to rectify it. You do know that Wikipedia is supported solely by your donations? If you stop donating, it goes, which just goes to show that the human face just can't have nice things. THIS IS AN INFORMATION REVOLUTION PEOPLE. PLEASE HELP ME LEAD THE WAY WITH YOUR DONATIONS."

DON'T YOU LEARN
ME ANYTHIN DICK'ED

Erm, aren't you an internet tycoon as well? Surely you can support your information revolution a little bit more, I'm struggling to find money to eat here. Whatever happened to your (what I assume to be) pure intentions? If you were really dedicated to this project you would sell your life and soul to it, live and breathe it. I know it's based on other people posting content, but just make a sing and dance about it more, become the Apostle of Wikipedia, educating those who haven't seen the light of information. yes, even the people who are too concerned in their own domestic affairs to really give a shit about information will see the light. All 17 year old single mums who live in a housing estate, and whose only interaction with letters and numbers is when they're texting well and truly want to learn about the Weimar Republic in their own free time. And even if they do visit the site, they won't donate.

Just why have you stuck your name and your face in the wrong place on the site? Haven't you realised that you're in prime position for being subject to many internet memes and abuse? Seeing as you're the founder of Wikipedia I assume that you are aware of the consequences.

I also can't seem to work out whether I like this guy or not. Good intentions at the start, but I guess this is one money grabbing ploy made by these moguls who think themselves as demi-gods, and at some point soon could be intent on brain-washing us through this. Either that, or we could fight back...

Unlucky mate.