Original post by Melanie Hick via THE HUFFINGTON POST

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is ditching Silicon Valley to move to the Silicon Roundabout.

Wales, who will thinks Wikipedia should tread carefully, and says he’ll never integrate Facebook likes on his site, sees London as the most central location for working in the internet industry.

Wales will live in Marylebone with his English fiance, and will choose the tech hub around Shoreditch as his base.

Wales told Huffington Post: “It’s a fabulous cosmopolitan city, and I will be here for personal reasons.

“It’s an advantage in some ways being in the UK. My work is very global and the UK is very centrally located for travel purposes. And it’s centrally located in other senses as well. Tech City here is great, and I’m intrigued by Tech Hub and some of the tech incubator spaces, I think that’s really cool.”

As much as Wales is pro-London, he’s also very much anti-crowd-sourcing, the term that is, not the concept.

“The term crowd-sourcing is really about getting people to do work for free or cheap. And I think that really disrespects what people are doing and are interested in doing,” he said.

“It’s a misunderstanding of what’s going on in online communities and it’s not really respecting the power of that one individual who does something interesting.”

As an alternative, Wales believes companies that should work with communities, rather than make communities work for a single company. The founder of a peer-edited site would say that though, wouldn’t he?

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