Jimmy Wales
Business Person and Blogger
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Wikipedia future in doubt as 49,000 volunteers leave site...that tens of thousands of Wikipedia editors were no longer contributing - and were not being replaced. Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia. It has become the fifth most popular website in the world with about 325million visits a month Mr... In this article: Wikipedia, Google, Jimmy Wales, World Cup, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Thierry Henry, Edward Kennedy, and Madrid |
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CBS | 4 days ago
Wikipedia founder creates help site for homeless
...to share information using the collaborative model of Wikipedia. Wales founded Wikipedia in St. Petersburg, though operations have moved to the San Francisco area. Similar projects to fight homelessness are already running in San...
In this article: Wikipedia, San Francisco, All rights reserved, Tampa Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Florida
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Independent.ie | November 17, 2009
Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy
...royalty has come to meet the real thing. Wales, the man who co-founded Wikipedia eight years ago, is in Monaco to be awarded the Monaco Media Prize at the principality's annual invite-only media forum. Princess Caroline said that he was a...
In this article: Wikipedia, Wikia, Arabic Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wikia Search, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Wikimedia Foundation, and Princess Caroline
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St. Petersburg Times | 5 days ago
Wikipedia founder creates online resource for Tampa Bay's homeless
TAMPA - Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City on Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area. The...
In this article: Wikipedia, Tampa Bay, Bill Gates, YouTube, Facebook, and Tampa Bay Area
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 17, 2009
Edward McMillanScott MEP an apology
...article may have given. Published: 4:45PM GMT 17 Nov 2009 Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, tells Emma Barnett of the site's 'increasing focus on quality and referencing'. British Airways offers you the chance to win business travel...
In this article: Wikipedia, Michal Kaminski, British Airways, and South Africa
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Wikipedia founder creates on-line source of help for Tampa Bay's homeless
...based, and Los Angeles, Wales said. Wales established himself as an Internet entrepreneur by inventing Wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia that can be updated or edited by anyone who uses the site. He said Wikipedia's huge success -170...
In this article: Wikipedia, Tampa Bay, Bill Gates, YouTube, Facebook, and Tampa Bay Area
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Description from Wikipedia:
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (pronounced: /ˈdoʊnəl weɪlz/; born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia. •
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He attended a small private school, a university preparatory school, and then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance. While in graduate school, he taught at two universities. Wales later took a job in finance, and worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm for several years. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal that targeted males, and which hosted, and provided the initial funding for, the peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003) and for its successor, Wikipedia.
In 2001, together with Larry Sanger and others, Wales helped launch Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia which subsequently enjoyed rapid growth and popularity.
As Wikipedia's public profile grew, Wales became the project's promoter and spokesman. Wales is historically cited as the co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation in declaring himself the sole founder. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization which operates Wikipedia. He holds its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a privately-owned, free Web-hosting service, with fellow Wikimedia trustee Angela Beesley.
- Name At Birth:
- Jimmy Donal Wales
- Also Known As:
- Jimbo (online nickname)
- Birth Date:
- August 07, 1966
- Birthplace:
- Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
- Nationality:
- American
- Residence:
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- University Attended:
- Occupation:
- Internet entrepreneur
- Known for:
- Co-founding Wikipedia
- Member Of:
- Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, Socialtext, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (advisory board)
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