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Jimmy Donal " Jimbo " Wales (born August 7, 1966) 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). He has worked on other online projects, including Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and WT Social .
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- Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966 (age 57), Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
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.
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20:01. Jimmy Wales. The birth of Wikipedia. Posted Aug 2006. More news and ideas from Jimmy Wales. In Brief. A celebrated building turns 50…and other TED news. May 5, 2017. Behold, your recap of TED-related news: Habitat turns 50!
2020 – 2021 Annual Report stories. 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.
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. Photo: Christopher Morris/VII. Encyclopaedia Britannica...