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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jimmy_WalesJimmy Wales - Wikipedia

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   Website. Official website. Signature. Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also referred to as 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 ...

   • Children: 3 daughters
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   • Other names: Jimbo (screen name)
   • Born: Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966 (age 57), Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.

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     What is freedom? Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder - BBC News

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     Jimmy Wales: Time to rethink journalism

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2013/06/30 › magazineJimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire - The New York Times

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   Type “Jimmy Wales” into Google and “net worth” is the first pre-emptive search to pop up. ... An entire “controversy” section explains the Sanger dispute and references a 2001 New York ...

4. en.wikinews.org › wiki › Wikipedia_founder_embroiledWikipedia founder embroiled in affair and financial allegations

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   Oct 12, 2014 · Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The implosion of a relationship between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and journalist Rachel Marsden has resulted in controversy and international ...

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   Why did Jimmy Wales create Wikipedia?

   • Wales, Jimmy (July 2005). "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". TED talks.

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   Is Jimmy Wales taking on Facebook?

   • "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Taking on Facebook and the Dangers Lurking in the Rise of Artificial Intelligence", by Fred Guterl, Newsweek, December 12, 2019. Roberts, Russ (March 9, 2009). "Wales on Wikipedia". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty. Wales, Jimmy (December 9, 2016). "How Wikipedia Works". cato.org. Cato Institute.

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   Why did Jimmy Wales email Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey?

   • You'll be asked to sign into your Forbes account. This article is more than 2 years old. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed that he had to email Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to get accusations of pedophilia removed from the social network.

   Jimmy Wales: I Had To Email Jack Dorsey To Stop Twitter Abuse - Forbes

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   Why did Jimmy Wales leave the Guardian?

   • "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales exits Guardian board over conflict of interest with Wikitribune news site". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022. ^ a b Jimmy Wales [@jimmy_wales] (September 16, 2019). "I just became a UK citizen, quite happy about that.

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6. www.forbes.com › sites › barrycollinsJimmy Wales: I Had To Email Jack Dorsey To Stop ... - Forbes

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   Sep 24, 2021 · Getty Images. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed that he had to email Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to get accusations of pedophilia removed from the social network. Wales, who was giving ...

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7. www.npr.org › 2018/04/27 › 606393983Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The ... - NPR

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   Hoaxes are presented as fact, conspiracy theories are offered as truth, and some of them may even end up on Wikipedia, one of the most-visited sites online. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the ...

8. www.bbc.co.uk › news › 10104946Wikimedia pornography row deepens as Wales cedes rights

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   May 10, 2010 · On Sunday, in response, Jimmy Wales voluntarily revoked many of the "permissions" given to him as Wikipedia's founder, to delete and edit "protected" content on Wikimedia Commons.

9. www.wired.com › 2013 › 03How Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia Harnessed the Web as a ... - WIRED

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   Mar 19, 2013 · Jimmy Wales and his crowdsourced compendium of all the world’s knowledge. Wikipedia began as a side project of Wales’ dotcom-bubble-era entrepreneurship (he launched a search engine, among ...