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Jimmy Wales, American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia

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Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

Jimmy Donal Wales, also known as Jimbo Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom. He has worked on other online projects, including…
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Wikipedia

Free online crowdsourced encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia…
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