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Jimmy Wales
Wales in August 2019
BornJimmy Donal Wales
(1966-08-07) August 7, 1966 (age 58)
Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Other namesJimbo (screen name)[1]
Education
OccupationInternet entrepreneur, webmaster, financial trader (formerly)
Net worthTemplate:US$[1][2] (2014)
Title
SuccessorFlorence Devouard (as Chair of Wikimedia Foundation)
Board member of
Spouse(s)
Pamela Green
(m. 1986; div. Template:Str ≠ len)

Christine Rohan
(m. 1997; div. Template:Str ≠ len)

(m. 2012)
Children3 daughters
AwardsSee below
WebsiteTemplate:Official URL
Signature

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]

  1. ^ a b Garside, Juliette. "Jimmy Wales: digital champion of free speech", The Observer, August 3, 2014. 
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Chozick-2013-06-30 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ 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) 
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Horovitz, David. "Jimmy Wales's benevolent Wikipedia wisdom", The Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2011. 
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference WMF PR 2004-04-25 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Economist2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).