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The Jimmy Wales Foundation for Freedom of Expression is a UK-based charity established by Wales to fight against human rights violations in the field of freedom of expression.
Jan 15, 2016 · Co-founder Jimmy Wales speaks about Wikipedia's push to diversify the community, its "depressing" progress in growing female membership and advice for news sites' dreadful comments section.
Jimmy Wales is an American-British entrepreneur, famous as the co-founder of ‘Wikipedia’, the free online encyclopedia. As a child, he received a unique kind of private school education, where he spent many hours studying encyclopedias.
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...
Nov 11, 2015 · Wales dreamed up Nupedia, a free, online encyclopedia, built not by ivory-tower elites but internet users from all over the world. To develop the project, he brought on Larry Sanger, a...
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In 2003, Mr. Wales founded the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.
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May 12, 2016 · So how did Wales build an online resource with more than 35 million articles in 288 languages that attracts contributors and readers from around the world? First, he bootstrapped.
