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Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an American 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.
Jan 22, 2024 · Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001. He was an American internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Wikipedia, one of the world's most popular and widely used online reference resources. He was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
Sep 25, 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.
Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (/ ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz /; born August 7, 1966 [3]) is an American-born British Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the people who started Wikipedia and Wikia. [4][5] Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. There, he went to Randolph School.
Jimmy Wales in 2019. Jimmy Wales holds a special role in the English Wikipedia community, due to the central and vital stake he had in its founding.
Mar 27, 2024 · Behind this world-changing movement was Jimmy Wales, an unassuming genius who built online communities to empower ordinary people. Let‘s examine his background, achievements, personal life and the evolution of his radical vision.
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.
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.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ~Jimmy Wales
