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“Don\u2019t be sneaky,” says Jimmy Wales<\/a>, founder of Wikipedia. That’s his advice to public relations people who try to get client messages onto the open-content website that sprang to life and straight into controversy 11 years ago. The nonprofit online encyclopedia \u2014 which, its founder admits, “has had some verification issues in the past” \u2014 currently houses nearly four million articles.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s made me unhappy when we\u2019ve made an error,” Wales tells me. “But it\u2019s never made me cry. It\u2019s motivated us. We always go back and figure out what we did wrong \u2014 and more to the point, how to make sure we never do it again.”<\/p>\n

Wales is wearing a black mock-turtleneck sweater, black slacks, black shoes, and a formless grayish blazer. He looks stylish (if truth be told, I dress very much the same way) but also as though he doesn\u2019t pay a lot of attention to looking fashion-forward (ditto!) \u00a0He sports black horn-rimmed glasses, dark, receding hair, and, perhaps to appear au courant<\/em> but more likely because he\u2019s exhausted from traveling, a 5 o\u2019clock shadow \u2014 or at least it was 30 minutes before our 5:30 p.m. chat at the Fairmont Hotel<\/a>, immediately prior to his speech to roughly 100 eager students at Hult International Business School\u2019s San Francisco campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I ask Wales if he thinks that Wikipedia\u2019s recent publicity-grabbing blackout did any good. You\u2019ll recall that many websites, including Wikipedia, shut down for 24 hours on Jan. 18 to protest Congress\u2019 latest and typically over-the-top bid to institute anti-piracy laws on the web. (I should point out here that Vice President Joe Biden, who\u2019s president of the U.S. Senate, has plagiarized speeches and been caught doing it; it\u2019s not all that relevant to this issue but, as a writer who\u2019s been pilfered from more than a few times, I never want anyone to forget it. Thank you for your patience.)<\/p>\n

The two bills that Wales and his compatriots were protesting, on the grounds that they were what Wales and others call “draconian,” were the Senate\u2019s Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and the House of Representatives\u2019 Protect Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA. This may be the only time you\u2019ve seen the words \u201ccongress\u201d and \u201cintellectual\u201d in the same story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a huge success,\u201d Wales says. \u201cSOPA and PIPA have been completely shelved. Darrell Issa says the issues are radioactive now.\u201d\u00a0 Issa, a Republican, is the U.S. Representative for California’s 49th congressional district which includes Vista, a city in North San Diego County. I know this because I looked it up on, yes, Wikipedia. My fact checkers are standing by.<\/p>\n

As a parting shot, I ask Wales \u2014 whose cool name makes him sound like a Scottish rock star \u2014 if he\u2019ll ever launch a blackout again. \u201cOh, I hope not,\u201d he says calmly. Then he shrugs. \u201cBut then again, history has yet to be written.\u201d Now, that\u2019s sneaky.<\/p>\n

Read the full Sacramento Business Journal<\/a> article.<\/em><\/p>\n

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