Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales promotes NFT auctions to get editors angry
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, put up an auction with the iMac used at the time of production as an NFT site where you can relive the moment when Wikipedia was born. However, announcing this auction on the Wikipedia user talk page was one act that angered the editors, saying that it was a violation of Wikipedia's rules.
The first Wikipedia edit to be sold as NFT | Christie's
Wikipedia: Administrators' noticeboard / Incidents-Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1058842599#Self_promotion_on_en.wiki_by_User:Jimbo_Wales
Wikipedia Editors Very Mad About Jimmy Wales' NFT of a Wikipedia Edit
Mr. Wales put up an auction with an NFT that represents the moment he created Wikipedia, which is written on the Ethereum blockchain. Auction buyers can edit the content as they please, but the content will be restored after 5 minutes. It looks like this. In addition, it is said that it is 'an artistic reproduction of the original using something as close as possible to the original software'.
Wikipedia: HomePage
https://www.editthisnft.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi
The money paid will be used for charitable activities and will be donated to the donation support network WT.Social that Mr. Wales started in 2019.
But the problem is that Wales announced the auction on Wikipedia's own user talk page. Mr. Wales wrote the announcement at 13:10 Coordinated Universal Time, December 3, 2021.
User talk: Jimbo Wales-Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=1058429884
Three hours later, at 16:23, a user named Floquenbeam angered the announcement. Floquenbeam wrote, 'Am I wrong? Jimbo posted an auction notice for his work on his user talk page, but confirmed that it wasn't in his personal interest. I refused. This is a self-promotional '101 (basic)', isn't it? If he doesn't remove it, I'll remove it, isn't it the policy (of Wikipedia)? There's no exemption for the founder, right? Wikimedia Foundation Just because he told me to post on the talk page (if you believe his words) doesn't mean he can actually advertise by overturning the self-promotion policy, right? '' If any of us If you try to do the same, you will be warned and blocked. '
Wikipedia has a policy that 'Wikipedia is not a podium, a means of advertising.' In this, each user page is clearly stated as 'only for providing information related to encyclopedia compilation work' and 'not for self-promotion'. Floquenbeam argues that what Wales did is against this policy.
Wales responded by saying that the Wikimedia Foundation's board of directors had instructed the community to provide information and that the Foundation's public relations and finance officials advised that it should be posted on the talk page. 'Self-promotion' and 'advertising' are treated as 'frankly ridiculous,' he said.
However, although there are opinions in support of Mr. Wales, there are many opinions instructing the deletion according to the policy, and the content in question was deleted at 17:06.
The auction itself is valid, and at the time of writing the article, the Wikipedia NFT is priced at $ 5,500 (about 626,000 yen), and the strawberry-colored iMac is priced at $ 8,500 (about 967,000 yen).
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