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Jimmy Wales. 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. He also continues to inspire people across the Wikimedia movement, as with his talks at Wikimedia events and his personal ...
Mar 19, 2013 · The Encyclopedic Mind of Jimmy Wales. The Wikipedia cofounder started out as a PhD student in economics and ended up unleashing a revolution in knowledge. —Elise Craig. 1969.
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, född 7 augusti 1966 i Huntsville, Alabama, [20] är en amerikansk-brittisk [21] internet entreprenör, mest känd som medgrundare av och talesman för det användargenererade uppslagsverket Wikipedia.
Jul 23, 2021 · Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia, one of the most referenced and used repositories of knowledge on the planet. Wales co-founded Wikipedia after leaving his job as an option trader in ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said that the concept of Wikipedia came when he was a graduate student at Indiana University, where he was impressed with the successes of the open-source movement and found Richard Stallman's Emacs Manifesto promoting free software and a sharing economy interesting. At the time, Wales was studying finance and ...
Feb 26, 2018 · Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales 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 ...
Jimmy Wales magát az objektivizmus és a libertarianizmus követőjének vallja. [1] 2006-ban a Wikipédia létrehozásában való közreműködéséért a Time magazin a világ egyik legbefolyásosabb emberének nevezte. [16] Wales a Wikipédia de facto vezetője, [6] [17] bár pontos pozíciója vita tárgya a sajtóban és a nyilvánosság ...
