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Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Donal " Jimbo " Wales (born August 7, 1966; Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is an Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).
Mar 19, 2013 · Founding Wikipedia in 2001 (along with Larry Sanger, by most accounts other than Wales’), Wales understood the web’s egalitarian underpinning and the open source method’s ability to spur...
- Ted Greenwald
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.
A one-day blackout of Wikipedia was called by Jimmy Wales on 18 January 2012, in conjunction with Google and over 7,000 other websites, to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act then under consideration by the United States Congress. The Wikimedia Foundation and legal structures
May 12, 2016 · As the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales created what has become the modern day encyclopedia for a generation of Millennials. While it attracts billions of visitors every month and has become...
- Danielle Abril
Feb 26, 2018 · 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.
Nov 26, 2018 · English: The founder of Wikipedia, pictured at New Broadcasting House in September 2015
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