Peter, When asking questions about the background of the founder of Wikipedia, it might be prudent to keep in mind that Jimmy Wales is a subscriber to this list and phrase your inquiries in appropriately neutral terms. The answer to this question is that Wales made the money that enabled him to start Wikipedia working on a portal/directory site (something like Yahoo's directory) that included among other sites listings of porn sites but was not itself porn. Kathy -- . . . connection in an isolating age . . . Katherine Mancuso, graduate student, Emory University Web 2.0 research, life, and meta: http://museumfreak.livejournal.com http://del.icio.us/museumfreak "Whenever anyone says 'You are,' they mean 'I want you to be.'" --Anais Nin