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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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Apr 16, 2019 · Apr 16, 2019 1:00 AM. Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales wanted to save journalism. He didn't. When it launched in 2017, WikiTribune had a bold plan to rewrite the journalism rulebook. Less than a year...
Jul 23, 2021 · Sanaz Meshkinpour. 12-Minute Listen. Part 3 of TED Radio Hour episode The Public Commons. Wikipedian Jake Orlowitz describes how volunteers update the world's largest encyclopedia. And co-founder...
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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the crowdsourced encyclopedia, has been thinking about how to tackle the problem of "fake news." On Thursday, he delivered a keynote address on "the future role for...
Apr 25, 2017 · Jimmy Wales is betting crowd-sourced news can restore our trust in the media — he might be right. Published: April 25, 2017 3:03pm EDT. X (Twitter) For more than 15 years, Jimmy Wales has...
Feb 25, 2023 · Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has insisted that the online encyclopedia is not "woke" as he battles a backlash from conservative critics across the West. In an interview with the Telegraph, the...
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.).
