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Aug 24, 2021 · Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales), founder of the online nonprofit encyclopedia Wikipedia and cofounder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc., including its entertainment media brand Fandom, powered by Wikia. Jimmy serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit charitable organization he established to operate Wikipedia ...
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales ( / ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz /; born August 7, 1966 [3]) is an American-born British Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the people who started Wikipedia and Wikia. [4] [5] Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. There, he went to Randolph School. He then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance.
Jan 31, 2007 · Interview: Knowledge to the people. By Paul Marks. 31 January 2007. Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales has all the hallmarks of a rock star. (Image: Chrys Rynearson) He’s inundated with offers, people turn ...
Mar 19, 2013 · Jimmy Wales and his crowdsourced compendium of all the world’s knowledge. Wikipedia began as a side project of Wales’ dotcom-bubble-era entrepreneurship (he launched a search engine, among ...
Jan 15, 2016 · Co-founder Jimmy Wales speaks about Wikipedia's push to diversify the community, its "depressing" progress in growing female membership and advice for news sites' dreadful comments section.
Jan 14, 2021 · If the business model and user experience of the internet today is characterised by an unrelenting cynicism, Wikipedia, founded in 2001, was born from the cyber-optimism of the 1990s. “Wikipedia is from a different era, reflecting the values of almost the pre-dotcom days. It was the idea of people coming together to share knowledge in a non ...
Jan 27, 2020 · During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with the idea of an online encyclopedia. In 2001, Wales launched ...
