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1. jimmywales.com › about-jimmyAbout Jimmy | Jimmy Wales

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   Jimmy Wales. Founder, Wikipedia. U.S. Internet Entrepreneur and Wiki Pioneer. One of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”. Wikipedia: The 5th Most Visited Web Site Worldwide. 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 ...

2. www.ted.com › speakers › jimmy_walesJimmy Wales | Speaker | TED

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   Founder of Wikipedia. Website: Wikipedia Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales Blog: Jimmy Wales' blog. TED Speaker. Personal profile. With a vision for a free online encyclopedia, Wales assembled legions of volunteer contributors, gave them tools for collaborating, and created the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, multilingual encyclopedia of ...

3. www.wired.com › 2013 › 03How Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia Harnessed the Web as a Force for Good

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   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.

4. www.ted.com › talks › jimmy_wales_the_birth_of_wikipediaJimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia | TED Talk

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   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. culture

5. www.npr.org › 2013/10/04 › 191625835Jimmy Wales: Why Does Wikipedia Work? : NPR

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   Jul 12, 2013 · Jimmy Wales is one of the founders of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting online encyclopedia anyone can edit. After Wikipedia's launch in 2001, it became one of the most used ...

6. www.npr.org › 2018/06/07 › 588068536Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales : NPR

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   Feb 26, 2018 · During the dot com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with the idea of an online encyclopedia. In 2001, Wales launched ...

7. www.theguardian.com › theobserver › 2014Jimmy Wales: digital champion of free speech - The Guardian

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   Aug 2, 2014 · As the editing wars that continually revise his Wikipedia biography suggest, even the most informed observers have found it hard to define the real Jimmy Wales.