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  1. Ranked by Forbes Magazine as a “Web Celeb”, Jimmy Donal Wales is a U.S. Internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer, and technology visionary, who is best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, an international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

  2. On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales started Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free, open content encyclopedia. It grew and became popular very quickly. As Wikipedia became known to the public, he became the project’s promoter and spokesperson. He is often called a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has argued against the "co-" part.

  3. Feb 7, 2014 · Interview. 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...

  4. Wikipedias founder, Jimmy Wales, continues on in the Wikimedia movement as a member of the Wikimedia Foundations Board of Trustees, 20 years after he first orchestrated Wikipedias debut on the internet. He also continues to inspire people across the Wikimedia movement, as with his talks at Wikimedia events and his personal celebration ...

  5. Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. culture

  6. 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...

  7. Since 2008, Jimmy Wales is (additionally to the Chairman Emeritus) granted the "Founder's seat" on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the ultimate corporate authority of the Wikimedia Foundation. Although Wales founded Wikipedia together with Larry Sanger, there is only one Founder's seat on the board.

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