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Jimmy Wales indicated at Wikimania 2006 that Wikipedia had achieved sufficient volume and called for an emphasis on quality, perhaps best expressed in the call for 100,000 feature-quality articles. A new privilege, "oversight", was created, allowing specific versions of archived pages with unacceptable content to be marked as non-viewable.
Mar 27, 2023 · Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal Wales was born in Huntsville, Madison County, on August 8, 1966, to Jimmy Wales, a grocer, and Doris Ann Dudley Wales, an educator who co-owned the private Montessori-based House of Learning Elementary School with her mother. Wales and his brother were educated at the school by their mother and grandmother.
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) ( Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).
Wales se narodil v Huntsvillu v americkém státě Alabama. Jeho otec Jimmy pracoval v potravinářství a jeho matka společně s jeho babičkou provozovaly malou školu, kterou Wales začal v šesti letech navštěvovat. [4] Poté, co tuto školu dokončil, začal chodit na místní soukromou školu Randolph School, která jej měla ...
Nov 30, 2021 · Jimmy Wales, 55, is an internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Wikipedia, the nonprofit online encyclopedia launched in 2001 that relies on user donations. He also is founder of Fandom, a for ...
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.
Aug 24, 2021 · Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales), founder of the online nonprofit encyclopedia Wikipedia and cofounder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc., including its entertainment media brand Fandom, powered by Wikia. Jimmy serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit charitable organization he established to operate Wikipedia ...
