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Jimmy Wales
Co-founding Wikipedia, the collaboratively written free encyclopedia.
Wikipedia · Wikimedia Foundation
- Born
- August 1966
- Birthplace
- Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Jimmy Wales
American-British internet entrepreneur associated with open online knowledge and community-edited websites.
Early life
Independent schooling
Attended a small private school run by his family.
Finance studies
Studied finance at Auburn University and the University of Alabama.
Career
- 1990s
Finance and internet work
Worked in trading before developing internet businesses.
- 2000–2003
Online encyclopedias
Developed Nupedia, launched Wikipedia with Larry Sanger and established the Wikimedia Foundation.
- 2000s onward
Further platforms
Continued Wikimedia involvement and developed other community websites.
Projects
Wikipedia
Co-founded an encyclopedia that anyone could help edit.
Wikimedia Foundation
Established the nonprofit organisation supporting Wikipedia and sister projects.
Wikia
Co-founded the wiki-hosting business later known as Fandom.
Beyond work
Open knowledge
Advocated freely available information and online participation.
Public debate
Has spoken internationally about trust, misinformation and the internet.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and references ↗Biography and contributions ↗Photo: PhilipRomano. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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