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1. www.historytools.org › people › jimmy-wales-complete-biographyJimmy Wales: The Man Who Democratized Human Knowledge

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   Mar 27, 2024 · Behind this world-changing movement was Jimmy Wales, an unassuming genius who built online communities to empower ordinary people. Let‘s examine his background, achievements, personal life and the evolution of his radical vision.

2. www.theguardian.com › technology › 2014Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: 'It's true, I'm not a billionaire. So...

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   Feb 7, 2014 · Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: 'It's true, I'm not a billionaire. So?' – interview. Carole Cadwalladr. The co-founder of Wikipedia on why he believes enriching the mind is more important than profits...

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

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   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 ...

4. wikimediafoundation.org › story › jimmy-walesJimmy Wales – Wikimedia Foundation

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   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.

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6. www.internethalloffame.org › inductee › jimmy-walesJimmy Wales - Internet Hall of Fame

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   Jimmy Wales. Internet Hall of Fame Innovator, 2012-2013 Advisory Board Member. Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, a free Internet encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute.

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

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   Founder of Wikipedia. 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 the future.

8. jimmywales.comJimmy Wales | Free knowledge for free minds

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   Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ~Jimmy Wales