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Jimmy Wales no longer contributing to world's knowledge

By Owen Thomas, 4:00 PM on Thu Aug 14 2008, 942 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales is committed to bringing the sum of all human knowledge to everybody on the planet. Except, that is, his Twitter updates, which he has just made "protected," so that only his 2,862 "friends" on the microblogging service can read them. We're sure that among that crowd, there are some Valleywag readers who will want to keep Wales adding to the sum of all human knowledge. Do share some Wales updates, won't you?

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