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    Jimmy Donal Wales (born on August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, 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).

  2. 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 as the Founder of Wikipedia, an international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

  3. Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia. http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia...

  4. Aug 3, 2024 · Jimmy Wales (born August 8, 1966, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. [see Researcher’s Note]) is an American entrepreneur, who cofounded Wikipedia, a free Internet-based encyclopaedia operating under an open-source management style.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Founder of Wikipedia. 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 the future.

  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...

  9. Jimmy Wales. Internet Hall of Fame Innovator, 2012-2013 Advisory Board Member. Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, a free Internet encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute.

  10. Feb 26, 2018 · Jimmy Wales launched Wikipedia in 2001. 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...

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