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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).
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- Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966 (age 57), Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Mar 19, 2013 · Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia harnessed the web as a force for good. Some 24 million entries later, it's an essential part of our lives. ... So the connection to my later work is that we allowed people ...
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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.
Jul 23, 2021 · Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia, one of the most referenced and used repositories of knowledge on the planet. Wales co-founded Wikipedia after leaving his job as an option trader in ...
Jimmy Wales. 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. He also continues to inspire people across the Wikimedia movement, as with his talks at Wikimedia events and his personal ...
Sep 29, 2017 · Interview: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales 29 Sep 2017 At the British Academy’s 2017 Prizes & Medals ceremony on Wednesday night (27 September), Jimmy Wales, 51, received a President’s Medal for "facilitating the spread of information through his work creating and developing Wikipedia, the world's largest free online encyclopedia."
Apr 28, 2024 · Jimmy Wales is an American entrepreneur, who cofounded Wikipedia, a free Internet-based encyclopaedia operating under an open-source management style. Wales received degrees in finance from Auburn University (B.S.) and the University of Alabama (M.S.). From 1994 to 2000 he was an options trader in.
