Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Likes To Meet Reporters At 'Fleabag' Times Square Hotels

One of this week’s lead New York Times Magazine features was a piece about Wikipedia’s effect on the news cycle. All well enough, especially considering the recent Virginia Tech shootings and the coincidental Chris Benoit mystery. But crossing the pond, we encountered the Observer Magazine. Of all the articles the Observer included in their Sunday magazine, one caught our eye: A profile of Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales.

Interestingly, both articles criticize Wales’ choice of meeting places for reporter interviews.

Wales’ taste in “fleabag” and “decrepit” hangouts:

Times: “Wales is a soft-spoken man with the unnerving focus of a person who sees something nobody else in the room sees.