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    Website. Official website. 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.
  2. 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.

  3. Mar 27, 2024 · March 27, 2024. [Jimmy Wales photo] The date was January 15, 2001. While the dotcom boom was imploding, three men quietly launched an unlikely website from San Diego. Little did they know this side project called Wikipedia would grow to become the largest encyclopedia in history, disrupting how we gather and spread human knowledge.

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  5. Learn about Jimmy Wales, the U.S. Internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer who created Wikipedia, the 5th most visited web site in the world. Find out his background, achievements, awards, and vision for the future of wiki technology and collaboration.

  6. Jan 16, 2007 · http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-orga...

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  7. 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.

  8. Mar 19, 2013 · Jimmy Wales and his crowdsourced compendium of all the world’s knowledge. Wikipedia began as a side project of Wales’ dotcom-bubble-era entrepreneurship (he launched a search engine, among ...

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