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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. He then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance.
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 ...
May 30, 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. Wales received degrees in finance from Auburn University (B.S.) and the University of Alabama (M.S.).
Jimmy Wales holds a special role in the English Wikipedia community, due to the central and vital stake he had in its founding. This has in the past included a number of roles in the community's governance, including originally having sole authority to ban editors from the site. Wales 's various powers were assumed over time by the Arbitration ...
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (lahir 7 Ogos 1966) ialah seorang usahawan dan bekas peniaga [2] [3] selaku pengasas dan Presiden Yayasan Wikimedia, sebuah perbadanan bukan untung yang mengendalikan Wikipedia [4] dan pelbagai projek wiki yang lain. Beliau juga merupakan pengasas Wikia, [5] sebuah syarikat perniagaan (tidak berkaitan dengan Wikimedia ...
Jimmy Wales indicated at Wikimania 2006 that Wikipedia had achieved sufficient volume and called for an emphasis on quality, perhaps best expressed in the call for 100,000 feature-quality articles. A new privilege, "oversight", was created, allowing specific versions of archived pages with unacceptable content to be marked as non-viewable.
Jan 31, 2007 · Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia. What gave him the big idea, and can the Wikipedia ethic survive in a world dominated by corporations? Plus, Jimmy answers the best readers' questions
