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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966; Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is an Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).
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.
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.
May 30, 2024 · Jimmy Wales 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.). From 1994 to 2000 he was an options trader in.
Why you should listen. Jimmy Wales went from betting on interest rates and foreign-currency fluctuations (as an option trader) to betting on the willingness of people to share their knowledge.
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.
Wales earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Auburn University and a master’s at the University of Alabama. From 1994 to 2000, he was the research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago.
