# Jerry's Jimmy Wales Story About the Pope Benedict Page in Wikipedia

In 2005, [Jimmy Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales), founder of Wikipedia, gave a talk in San Francisco that [[Jerry Michalski|Jerry]] attended. Early in the presentation, Jimmy laughed that he had just received a bunch of congratulatory emails, mostly from journalists, saying how impressed they were that Wikipedia had such a thorough page on the new Pope up so quickly. Watch this video to see what happened, plus the implications: 

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This story is one of the [[Rel8 Inspirations]].