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Internet Hall of Fame Innovator, 2012-2013 Advisory Board Member. Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, a free Internet encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute. Also the world’s largest encyclopedia, it has become the fifth-largest website in the world and its popularity has helped fuel a trend of collaboration and sharing among users. In 2003 ...
Jimmy Wales. 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. He also continues to inspire people across the Wikimedia movement, as with his talks at Wikimedia events and his personal ...
Jun 27, 2013 · Type “Jimmy Wales” into Google and “net worth” is the first pre-emptive search to pop up. “Everyone makes fun of Jimmy for leaving the money on the table,” says Sue Gardner, the ...
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. That's how Wikipedia, imagined in 2001, became one of the most-referenced, most-used repositories of knowledge on the planet, with more than four and a half million articles in ...
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.
Jimmy Wales. Co-founder of Wikipedia and member of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. 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.
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.
