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    Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966; Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American [better source needed] Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader.

  2. Ranked by Forbes Magazine as a “Web Celeb”, Jimmy Donal Wales is a U.S. Internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer, and technology visionary, who is best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, an international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

  3. Mar 27, 2024 · Learn about Jimmy Wales, the visionary who launched Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in history, in 2001. Discover his background, achievements, personal life and advocacy for free knowledge as a human right.

  4. Mar 19, 2013 · Founding Wikipedia in 2001 (along with Larry Sanger, by most accounts other than Wales’), Wales understood the web’s egalitarian underpinning and the open source method’s ability to spur ...

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  5. 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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  6. Learn about Jimmy Wales, the visionary who created Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia with millions of articles in multiple languages. Watch his TED talk, read his blog and explore his latest project, Wikiasari, a wiki-style search engine.

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  8. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia and a member of its governing board. He inspires and engages with the Wikimedia community, celebrating its volunteers and promoting its values of collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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