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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).
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.
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.
Mar 27, 2024 · Behind this world-changing movement was Jimmy Wales, an unassuming genius who built online communities to empower ordinary people. Let‘s examine his background, achievements, personal life and the evolution of his radical vision.
May 30, 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.
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.
Jan 16, 2007 · http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting,...
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.
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.
His role since May 2023 is essentially as a respected senior community member and representative, a source of institutional knowledge, and the holder of the Founder's seat on the 12-seat Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the ultimate authority over all Wikimedia projects.
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