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    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. First aired on April 5, 2015. Rebroadcast on July 26, 2015. Wales, Jimmy (July 2005). "The birth of Wikipedia – 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". TED talks.

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  4. Jimmy Wales in 2019. Jimmy Wales holds a special role in the English Wikipedia community, due to the central and vital stake he had in its founding. This has in the past included a number of roles in the community's governance, including originally having sole authority to ban editors from the site. Wales 's various powers were assumed over ...

  5. When Netscape went public and it was worth more than $2 billion on the first day, it clicked in my mind that something big was happening on the Internet. Wired: And so you started your own ...

  6. Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, continues on in the Wikimedia movement as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees, 20 years after he first orchestrated Wikipedia’s debut on the internet. He also continues to inspire people across the Wikimedia movement, as with his talks at Wikimedia events and his personal ...

  7. Feb 26, 2018 · Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales 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 ...

  8. Jul 12, 2013 · Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," and gave them tools to create a self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. TED...

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