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Signature. 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). He has worked on other online projects, including Bomis ...
Since 2008, Jimmy Wales is (additionally to the Chairman Emeritus) granted the "Founder's seat" on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the ultimate corporate authority of the Wikimedia Foundation. [7] [8] Although Wales founded Wikipedia together with Larry Sanger, there is only one Founder's seat on the board. [9]
Founders of Wikipedia. There are two co-founders of Wikipedia: Larry Sanger (born 1968), American internet project developer. Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur.
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia in 2001 as a feeder project to supplement Nupedia.The project was originally funded by Bomis, Wales's for-profit business, and edited by a rapidly growing community of volunteer editors.
Seigenthaler, the founding editorial director of USA Today and founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, called Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and asked whether he had any way of knowing who contributed the misinformation. Wales said he did not, although the perpetrator was eventually traced.
The essence of Wikipedia – describes how Wikipedia uses collective intelligence, collaboration, and preservation to build, expand, and improve content. Statement of principles – by the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, as updated by the community since then. What Wikipedia is not – describes how there are certain things that Wikipedia ...
It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia operated from October 1999 [1] [2] until September 2003. It is best known today as the predecessor of Wikipedia. Nupedia had a seven-step approval process to control content of articles before being posted, rather than live wiki-based updating ...
The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. [1] [10] Fandom was acquired in 2018 by TPG Inc. and Jon Miller through Integrated Media Co. [11] Fandom uses MediaWiki, the same open-source wiki software used by Wikipedia.