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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).
Mar 19, 2013 · Founding Wikipedia in 2001 (along with Larry Sanger, by most accounts other than Wales’), Wales understood the web’s egalitarian underpinning and the open source method’s ability to spur...
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Aug 24, 2021 · In 2019, Jimmy launched WT.Social, a news-focused social network. In 2006, Jimmy was named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world for his role in creating Wikipedia. Jimmy, welcome to the show. Jimmy Wales: Thanks for having me. It’s good to be here.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said that the concept of Wikipedia came when he was a graduate student at Indiana University, where he was impressed with the successes of the open-source movement and found Richard Stallman's Emacs Manifesto promoting free software and a sharing economy interesting.
Jul 17, 2013 · Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia talks about how and why he started Wikipedia.JIMMY WALES: is the founder of Wikipedia and Chair of the Wikimedia Founda...
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Jan 14, 2021 · If the business model and user experience of the internet today is characterised by an unrelenting cynicism, Wikipedia, founded in 2001, was born from the cyber-optimism of the 1990s. “Wikipedia is from a different era, reflecting the values of almost the pre-dotcom days.
May 29, 2007 · Jimmy Wales invented Wikipedia, and he remains its reigning local deity. Despite that, Wikipedia actually happened because it was allowed to happen.
