Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known on Wikipedia by the pseudonym Jimbo, is an American-British [3] Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).
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- Auburn University (BS), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (MS), Indiana University, Bloomington
- Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966 (age 56), Huntsville, Alabama, USA
- Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, financial trader (formerly)
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.
Jimmy Wales, in full Jimmy Donal Wales, (born August 8, 1966, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. [ see Researcher’s Note ]), American entrepreneur, who cofounded Wikipedia, a free Internet -based encyclopaedia operating under an open-source management style.
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Jimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia | TED Talk The birth of Wikipedia 1,472,268 views | Jimmy Wales • TEDGlobal 2005 Like (44K) Read transcript Talk details Get special access to TED2023! As a thank you to our members, we’re giving them a virtual first look at select talks from the conference. Want in? Become a member by April 11. Sign up now
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.