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Nov 24, 2010 · Please read: a personal appeal from "Jimmy Wales". News. By PCGamer. published 24 November 2010. Comments. Hi, I'm Jimmy goddamn Wales. You may know me as the founder of Wikipedia or from...
Dec 31, 2005 · This is a radical strike at the heart of an increasingly shallow, proprietary and anti-intellectual culture. It is a radical strike at the assumption that the Internet has to be a place of hostile debate and flame wars. It is an appeal to the best within all of us. The result so far has been wild success.
Official website. 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).
Dec 26, 2008 · An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales. Friday, Dec 26, 2008 by Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons ( @sexyfacts4u) Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recently posted a personal appeal to users of Wikipedia in an attempt to increase donations to his Wikimedia Foundation and keep the user-editable encyclopedia advertising-free.
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Shortly after its first appearance on the site, a Google Chrome browser extension was created that would place Mr. Wales' appeal on the top of every web page. The appeal was parodied on Uncyclopedia, PC Gamer and The Next Web. On November 25th, 4chan implemented a similar banner ad featuring moot that redirected to a fisheye photo of an orange cat....
Despite being $1 million short of their goal on December 3st, 2010, Wikipedia's fund-raising campaign reached its target of $16 million in just 50 days, in comparison to $8.7 million the site raised in 67 days at the end of 2009. More than 500,000 users contributed from 140 countries, with an average contribution of $22.
Beginning in June 2011, Wikipedia began testing a wide variety of similar banner ads expanding the images to not only include Jimmy Wales but other employees of the Wikimedia Foundation as well. One of the pleas featured Brandon Harris (shown below, center), a staff programmer who says he quit his job building "some crappy thing that's designed to ...
Nov 16, 2010 · You may have heard that the Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit group behind online encyclopedia Wikipedia, recently launched an appeal asking users to donate money to keep the site free;...
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. [11] Sanger coined the name Wikipedia, [12] which is a portmanteau of wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") [13] and encyclopedia. deanbmmv.
