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Jimmy Wales | |
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Born | Jimmy Donal Wales August 7, 1966 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
Other names | Jimbo (screen name)[1] |
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Occupation | Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, financial trader (formerly) |
Net worth | ≈Template:US$[1][2] (2014) |
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Successor | Florence Devouard (as Chair of Wikimedia Foundation) |
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Spouse(s) | |
Children | 3 daughters |
Awards | See below |
Website | Template:Official URL |
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Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an American-British[4] Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader.[2][5] He is a co-founder and current CEO of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia,[6] and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia, later renamed Fandom.[7]
- ^ a b Garside, Juliette. "Jimmy Wales: digital champion of free speech", The Observer, August 3, 2014.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Williams, Christopher. "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales exits Guardian board over conflict of interest with Wikitribune news site", The Telegraph, April 25, 2017. (in en-GB)
- ^ Jimmy Wales [@jimmy_wales] (September 16, 2019). "I just became a UK citizen, quite happy about that. It occurs to me that perhaps a few MPs should actually take the "Life in the UK" test and study the manual!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Horovitz, David. "Jimmy Wales's benevolent Wikipedia wisdom", The Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2011.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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