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Co-founder of Wikipedia and Board Member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that runs the Wikimania conferences. A self-professed Objectivist and Alabama native, he often goes by the nickname "Jimbo."

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  • Co-founder of Wikipedia and Board Member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that runs the Wikimania conferences. A self-professed Objectivist and Alabama native, he often goes by the nickname "Jimbo."
  • thumb|right|250px|Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales (urodzony w 1966 roku) - biznesmen i autor wikipedii i wikii. W 2000 roku założył Nupedie, pierwszą wolną encyklopedie w interencie. 15 stycznia 2001 roku stworzył Wikipedię, pierwszą wolną encyklopedie, który każdy ma prawo redagować. Wikipedia dość szybko stała się poularna. W 2003 roku została założył Wikimedia Foundation, a w 2006 roku Wikię.
  • Jimmy McDonalds Duck Whales, eller "Jumbo Wales" (fødd 7. august 1966) var han som fant opp McDonald's og Wikipedia. Han har og kalt seg for Donald Duck når han held programmet Donald Duck. Jimmy er ein kval. Eller elefant? Kven veit... Veit du? Og mogleg han er ei and, for dei seier jo Donald Duck-namnet hannes. Han er flink til å finne opp nye namn.
  • __INDEX__ Jimmy Donal „Jimbo“ Wales (* 7. August 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) ist ein US-amerikanischer Internet-Unternehmer und Gründer der weltweiten Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia.
  • The criticisms in this section are less true today (2015) than they were round 2008-2009 when much of this article was written.
  • Jimmy Wales is one of the founders of Wikipedia as well as Wikia.
  • Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, geboren am 7. August 1966 in Huntsville (auf Deutsch: Jagdstadt), Alabama, ist ein US-amerikanischer Geschäftsmann und Wiki-Pionier. Nach kurzem Studium an einer unbekannten Universität im noch unbekannteren Auburn hat Jimmy sich als Derivaten-Trader an der Börse von Chicago eine goldene Nase erschummeltverdient, so dass er seitdem für den Rest seines Lebens ausgesorgt hat und brave Bürger mit seinen Ideen und Visionen quälen kann.
  • Jimmy Wales est un illuminé, inspiré par l'Esprit Saint, selon ce qu’il prétend à chaque conférence de presse.
  • Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikia and 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 and 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.
  • Amber and Leo talk with the founder of Wikipedia.com, Jimmy Wales... * See if a station near you is picking up Leo's radio show. * Wikipedia may be running out of funds soon. * Courts have also been using Wikipedia as a source. * It is Darren's, from Hak.5, birthday. * Check out, "It's Great To Be a Nerd. * We are geeks - not nerds. * There's a Leo impersonator at the Laporte Report blog. * Amber went for auction in a finest bachelor and bachelorette auction. * Check out ten cool, funny, sexy, and crazy valentine messages. * There are quite a few Mac vs. PC commercial parodies on the Internet. Youtube user biftar has four hilarious ones. * Here are 23 signs that you're becoming a design geek. * Wikia is for anything that may not fit into Wikipe
  • An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales Dear Reader, Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users? Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003. Thank you,
  • Jimmy Wales, aka "Comrade" Wales, is the decider in chief of Wikipedia, when he's not borrowing from the foundation's donations to chop up trees with George W. Bush or hunt Dick Cheney. He prefers that Fox News report and you decide what goes into the encyclopedia. According to his Wikip*dia page, he can also bench-press 500 lbs. Some confuse Wales with a liberal or a part of the nerd patrol. What they don't realize is that Jimmy is a covert communist comrade of Hugo Chavez using Karl Rove's cutting edge information management theory.
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  • Jimmy Wales in December 2008
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  • Jimbo
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  • Chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation
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  • June 2003 – October 2006
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  • EFF Pioneer Award , The Economist Business Process Award , The Global Brand Icon of the Year Award
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  • Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, Socialtext, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
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  • Co-founding Wikipedia
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  • Co-founder of Wikipedia and Board Member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that runs the Wikimania conferences. A self-professed Objectivist and Alabama native, he often goes by the nickname "Jimbo."
  • thumb|right|250px|Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales (urodzony w 1966 roku) - biznesmen i autor wikipedii i wikii. W 2000 roku założył Nupedie, pierwszą wolną encyklopedie w interencie. 15 stycznia 2001 roku stworzył Wikipedię, pierwszą wolną encyklopedie, który każdy ma prawo redagować. Wikipedia dość szybko stała się poularna. W 2003 roku została założył Wikimedia Foundation, a w 2006 roku Wikię.
  • Jimmy McDonalds Duck Whales, eller "Jumbo Wales" (fødd 7. august 1966) var han som fant opp McDonald's og Wikipedia. Han har og kalt seg for Donald Duck når han held programmet Donald Duck. Jimmy er ein kval. Eller elefant? Kven veit... Veit du? Og mogleg han er ei and, for dei seier jo Donald Duck-namnet hannes. Han er flink til å finne opp nye namn.
  • __INDEX__ Jimmy Donal „Jimbo“ Wales (* 7. August 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) ist ein US-amerikanischer Internet-Unternehmer und Gründer der weltweiten Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia.
  • The criticisms in this section are less true today (2015) than they were round 2008-2009 when much of this article was written.
  • Jimmy Wales is one of the founders of Wikipedia as well as Wikia.
  • 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 and 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 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. Wales 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. Wales has been married twice and has a daughter with Christine, his second wife, from whom he is separated. He describes himself as an Objectivist and, with reservations, a libertarian. His role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world's most influential people. Wales is the de facto leader of Wikipedia; his exact position on the project is a matter of public and press debate.
  • Jimmy Wales, aka "Comrade" Wales, is the decider in chief of Wikipedia, when he's not borrowing from the foundation's donations to chop up trees with George W. Bush or hunt Dick Cheney. He prefers that Fox News report and you decide what goes into the encyclopedia. According to his Wikip*dia page, he can also bench-press 500 lbs. Some confuse Wales with a liberal or a part of the nerd patrol. What they don't realize is that Jimmy is a covert communist comrade of Hugo Chavez using Karl Rove's cutting edge information management theory. Because of his covert operative status (which you should not mention to Robert Novak or Scooter Libby), he has not appeared on The Colbert Report. This is all about to change with the upcoming wikipocalypse, as Jimmy has finally decided to prove that he's no coward by showing up for his nailing on May 24, 2007.
  • An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales Dear Reader, Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users? Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003. At its core, Wikipedia is driven by a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers - all dedicated to sharing knowledge freely. Over almost eight years, these volunteers have contributed more than 11 million articles in 265 languages. More than 275 million people come to our website every month to access information, free of charge and free of advertising. But Wikipedia is more than a website. We share a common cause: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment. Your donation helps us in several ways. Most importantly, you will help us cover the increasing cost of managing global traffic to one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Funds also help us improve the software that runs Wikipedia -- making it easier to search, easier to read, and easier to write for. We are committed to growing the free knowledge movement world-wide, by recruiting new volunteers, and building strategic partnerships with institutions of culture and learning. Wikipedia is different. It's the largest encyclopedia in history, written by volunteers. Like a national park or a school, we don't believe advertising should have a place in Wikipedia. We want to keep it free and strong, but we need the support of thousands of people like you. I invite you to join us: Your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the whole world. Thank you,
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