Jimmy Wales wanted New York, not San Francisco, for HQ
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells us our tipster got it wrong when suggesting the Wikipedia foundation moved to San Francisco in order to snuggle up to Roger McNamee, one of the moneymen at Elevation Partners. Our anonymous source also suggested Wales was working to find a way to profit from Wikipedia. Wales denies that: "I am 100 percent fully supportive of Wikipedia remaining just as it is: a charitable project. Period." The real scoop? Wales tells us he didn't want to move Wikipedia to San Francisco in the first place. He voted for New York instead. He wouldn't elaborate on why. Our theory? So he could expense cross-continent trips between San Francisco, where his for-profit Wikia startup is based, and New York.