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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).

   • Children: 3 daughters
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   • Other names: Jimbo (screen name)
   • Born: Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966 (age 57), Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.

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   Jimmy Wales met his next business partner, Larry Sanger, as a fellow-follower of ‘Ayn Rand Philosophy Discussion List’, where Sanger was a moderator. In March 2000, the duo launched ‘Nupedia’, a free online encyclopedia whose content was contributed by experts and scholars.

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   Why did Jimmy Wales create Wikipedia?

   • Wales, Jimmy (July 2005). "The birth of Wikipedia – 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". TED talks.

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   Is Jimmy Wales still wikipedia's biggest competitor?

   • Biographers characterize Jimmy Wales as restless, responsive and radically imaginative all at once. Two decades since that humble dot org experiment, perhaps Wikipedia still remains Wikipedia‘s biggest competitor. American-British internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has helped build communities of knowledge.

   Jimmy Wales: The Man Who Democratized Human Knowledge

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   Is Jimmy Wales taking on Facebook?

   • "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Taking on Facebook and the Dangers Lurking in the Rise of Artificial Intelligence", by Fred Guterl, Newsweek, December 12, 2019. Roberts, Russ (March 9, 2009). "Wales on Wikipedia". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty. Wales, Jimmy (December 9, 2016). "How Wikipedia Works". cato.org. Cato Institute.

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   Does Jimmy Wales want Wikipedia to change the world?

   • PCMag. November 15, 2019. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019. Retrieved November 16, 2019. ^ Smith, Charlie (September 4, 2015). "Jimmy Wales on Censorship in China". HuffPost. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2017. ^ a b "Jimmy Wales wants Wikipedia to change the world, again". The Jerusalem Post.

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4. www.historytools.org › people › jimmy-wales-completeJimmy Wales: The Man Who Democratized Human Knowledge

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   Mar 27, 2024 · March 27, 2024. [Jimmy Wales photo] The date was January 15, 2001. While the dotcom boom was imploding, three men quietly launched an unlikely website from San Diego. Little did they know this side project called Wikipedia would grow to become the largest encyclopedia in history, disrupting how we gather and spread human knowledge.

5. www.wired.com › 2013 › 03How Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia Harnessed the Web as a ... - WIRED

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   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

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7. www.britannica.com › money › Jimmy-WalesJimmy Wales | Internet pioneer, Wikipedia founder ...

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   Apr 28, 2024 · In March 2000, perhaps inspired by objectivist “openness,” he founded a free online encyclopaedia called Nupedia, which sought free contributions from scholars and other experts and subjected them to an intensive peer-review process.

8. www.theguardian.com › technology › 2014Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: 'It's true, I'm not a billionaire ...

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   Feb 7, 2014 · Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. ... You've said that you're going to start encrypting communications on Wikipedia as a ...

9. onezero.medium.com › an-oral-history-of-wikipediaAn Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia

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   Jan 14, 2021 · Jimmy Wales: You just saw [videos of the attacks] over and over and over, and you saw the talking heads speculating about who could have done it. Katherine Maher: People were seeking information, and Wikipedia was available in a way that really met a need. Jimmy Wales: We had been cranking along reasonably well, writing an encyclopedia. It was ...