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    Official website. Signature. Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966; Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American [3] Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).

  2. Mar 27, 2024 · Jimmy Wales: The Man Who Democratized Human Knowledge - History Tools. by history tools. March 27, 2024. [Jimmy Wales photo] The date was January 15, 2001. While the dotcom boom was imploding, three men quietly launched an unlikely website from San Diego.

  3. Jimmy Wales. Founder, Wikipedia. U.S. Internet Entrepreneur and Wiki Pioneer. One of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”. Wikipedia: The 5th Most Visited Web Site Worldwide. Ranked by Forbes Magazine as a “Web Celeb”, Jimmy Donal Wales is a U.S. Internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer, and technology visionary, who is best known ...

  4. Emma Bryce. Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.

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  5. Mar 19, 2013 · Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia harnessed the web as a force for good. Some 24 million entries later, it's an essential part of our lives.

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  6. Founder of Wikipedia. Website: Wikipedia Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales Blog: Jimmy Wales' blog. TED Speaker. Personal profile. With a vision for a free online encyclopedia, Wales assembled legions of volunteer contributors, gave them tools for collaborating, and created the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, multilingual encyclopedia of ...

  7. Jul 23, 2021 · Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia, one of the most referenced and used repositories of knowledge on the planet. Wales co-founded Wikipedia after leaving his job as an option trader in...

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