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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) (Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American 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.
Mar 19, 2013 · How did it lead to the free-for-all that is Wikipedia? Wales: We had been working on Nupedia for nearly two years, but we had only completed something like a couple dozen articles. I...
- Ted Greenwald
May 12, 2016 · Business. The Business of Wikipedia: How Jimmy Wales Built the Free Encyclopedia. The entrepreneur told a Dallas crowd about his vision to create access to the sum of all human knowledge....
- Danielle Abril
Mar 27, 2024 · Beyond leading Wikipedia policies and culture, Wales advocates for legal frameworks supporting free knowledge globally. At the World Economic Forum in 2008, he spearheaded the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Free Speech.
2020 – 2021 Annual Report stories. 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.
Jan 14, 2021 · In the early days of Wikipedia, the universal online encyclopaedia which celebrated its 20th anniversary on 15 January, some members of the team debated whether, instead of attempting to be neutral about every topic in the world, the website could instead host parallel articles by worldview.
Jan 15, 2016 · Co-founder Jimmy Wales speaks about Wikipedia's push to diversify the community, its "depressing" progress in growing female membership and advice for news sites' dreadful comments section.
