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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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Mar 27, 2024 · He realized academic peer review made contributing too intimidating. By January 2001, Wales soft-launched a side-project built around simplicity over perfection: Wikipedia. [Table or infographic contrasting Nupedia vs Wikipedia in the early days] When Openness Transcends Accuracy – Rise of Wikipedia.
Apr 28, 2024 · Jimmy Wales (born August 8, 1966, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. [ see Researcher’s Note ]) 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.).
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.
