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The Guardianの記事、'The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales' by Aida Edemariamから。

'Jimmy Wales seems distracted. He checks his phone, stares at the ceiling, at the table, and checks his phone again. I assume, initially, that this is how he generally conducts meetings, but it turns out there's a reason: his second child is late arriving, and "we're pacing the floors."

"We" is he and Kate Garvey, late of Number 10, where she was Tony Blair's diary secretary (as he reminds me, proudly) and now a director at Freud communications; they met at Davos a couple of years ago, and now he's moving to Britain to be with her. He will still commute to Florida, where his first daughter lives with her mother, every second week, as well as taking frequent trips all over the world, especially to India, where he is setting up Wikipedia's first office outside the US.'