100 things you didn't know about Wikipedia

Few Internet users will be unaware of Wikipedia , which is a global project to produce a free content encyclopedia that could be edited by anyone, formally began on 15 January 2001 (link for Wiki history). As of today, it includes millions of articles and pages worldwide, and content from hundreds of thousands of contributors.

Few internet users will be aware of the role of Bomis which has provided the backing for a tool that in a few short years has proven a valuable tool for students, and researchers, although many, myself included view anything with considerable scepticism ...An alternative and interesting history of Wikipedia / Bomis can be found here. Again a degree of scepticism is necessary.

James Wales who was born in Huntsville, Alabama, went to the exclusive Randolph prep school, and onto the University of Alabama. He graduated and became a Futures Trader in Chicago. He next opened Bomis, an 'Adult Content' website, with Timothy Shell an American internet entrepreneur. Shell is the CEO of the Internet company Bomis and serves as the Executive Secretary on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation ( a non profit organisation started June 20, 2003). Shell has been at Bomis since he joined up with Jamesy Wales to start the company in 1996 after discontinuing his degree in computer science.

Shell has lived in Chicago, Florida, and San Diego, and currently resides in Las Vegas.

Bomis allegedly the source of funds, expertise and equipment, describes itself as an "adult" website and has run nekkid.info, a "free repository of selected erotic photographs", and continues to host The Babe Engine, "a precision babe search engine", which indexes photos ranging from glamour photography to pornography.Website (pornographic content).

Pic is of Sylvie Saint wearing a Bomis T shirt who seems to figure a lot in the adult section of the Bomis web rings. She has her own site here VERY pornographic !

...and don't miss reading this here and this gives more information about the origins of Bomis.

Wikipedia = funded by smut, 2.4 billion hits per day and the content is manipulated by unregulated self elected "moderators" ... no wonder they keep quiet about their past.

NEWS UPDATE

This website has a great deal of Anti-Wikipedia information much is worth reading, much is bollocks. It is especially interesting to read the section on who provides the funds.