Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is...
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Wikipedia (category Jimmy Wales)
through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since...
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ads and that Jimmy Wales was opposed to them is, I am afraid, yet another self-serving lie from Wales", wrote Sanger. As late as 2006 Wales refused to deny...
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Wikimedia Foundation (category Jimmy Wales)
Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects which had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales' for-profit company...
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English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English...
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from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017. Wales, Jimmy [@jimmy_wales] (29 April 2017). "Access to information is a fundamental human...
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Criticism of Wikipedia (section Role of Jimmy Wales)
has been criticized for placing an irrational emphasis on Jimmy Wales as a person. Wales's role in personally determining the content of some articles...
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Bomis (category Jimmy Wales)
online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with...
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the first half of 2012, only nine in total were appointed. However, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, denied that this was a crisis or that Wikipedia...
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project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name, and provided initial drafts for many...
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engine launched by Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting company founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Wikia Search followed other experiments by Wikia...
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criteria for notability." Jimmy Wales also criticized the long process on his talk page. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stated in 2006: "The Wikipedia...
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History of Wikipedia (category Jimmy Wales)
Britannica. In 2001, the license for Nupedia was changed to GFDL, and Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia as a complementary project, using...
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undergraduate college education. In August 2014, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said in a BBC interview that the Wikimedia Foundation was "... really...
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Wikipedia: Larry Sanger (born 1968), American internet project developer Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur History of Wikipedia...
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scheduled all day during those three days. Keynote speakers included Jimmy Wales, Ross Mayfield, Ward Cunningham, and Richard Stallman (who spoke on "Copyright...
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ASA's code. In December 2005, it was found that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales had edited his own Wikipedia entry. As of 9 September 2023,[update] seven...
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first Wikipedian of the Year in August 2011 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at Wikimania Osama Khalid, Arabic Wikipedia administrator and medical...
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Dinosaur Comics (redirect from Fictional Jimmy Wales)
Dinosaur Comics is a constrained webcomic by Canadian writer Ryan North. It is also known as "Qwantz", after the site's domain name, "qwantz.com". The...
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project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public. Jimmy Wales stated that editors are not required to fax in their degrees, but that...
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his real name. The controversy came to involve Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales who, after initially defending Jordan, eventually asked for his resignation...
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Wiktionary (category Jimmy Wales)
Available in Multilingual (172 active) Owner Wikimedia Foundation Created by Jimmy Wales Wikimedia community URL wiktionary.org Commercial No Registration Optional...
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collaborative journalism through user-created content. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying, "On Wikinews, each...
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Fandom (website) (category Jimmy Wales)
Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Fandom was acquired in 2018 by TPG Inc. and Jon Miller...
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Things escalated when Fox News began reporting on the issue. In response Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, and other administrators began deleting images...
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and published materials. In a December 13, 2005, interview, co-founder Jimmy Wales expressed his support for Wikipedia policy allowing articles to be edited...
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Wikimedia movement, established in August 2011 by Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales. Wales selects the recipients and honors them at Wikimania, an annual conference...
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GoDaddy Over Their Support of SOPA". Retrieved 22 December 2011. Wales, Jimmy [@jimmy_wales] (23 December 2011). "I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia...
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amateur editors. The film includes commentary from Wikipedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, The Cult of the Amateur author Andrew Keen, O'Reilly...
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First Wikipedia edit (category Jimmy Wales)
its entirety "This is the new WikiPedia!" In December 2021, co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that he would sell a website containing a re-creation of an...
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