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Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Donal Wales (born on August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia). He has worked on other online projects, including Bomis ...
Jimmy Wales in 2019. Jimmy Wales holds a special role in the English Wikipedia community, due to the central and vital stake he had in its founding. This has in the past included a number of roles in the community's governance, including originally having sole authority to ban editors from the site. Wales 's various powers were assumed over ...
Larry Sanger. Lawrence Mark Sanger ( / ˈsæŋər / ⓘ; [ 1] born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name, and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules ...
[6] [7] [8] The Foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other crowdsourced wiki projects. [1] Until then, they had been hosted by Bomis , Wales's for-profit company.
Founders of Wikipedia. There are two co-founders of Wikipedia : Larry Sanger (born 1968), American internet project developer. Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur.
November 13, 2023 at 6:01 PM. Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images. Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales took a swing at Elon Musk's tech empire, targeting the billionaire's social network X and ...
Lex Fridman ( / ˈfriːdmən /; born 15 August 1983) [ 2] is a Russian-American computer scientist and podcaster. Since 2018 he has hosted the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he interviews notable figures from various fields such as science, technology, sports, and politics. Fridman rose to prominence in 2019 after Elon Musk praised his study which ...
Wikimedian of the Year (formerly known as Wikipedian of the Year) is an annual award established in 2011 by Wikipedia 's founder Jimmy Wales, traditionally presented at Wikimania to highlight major achievements for Wikipedia by an individual Wikipedian. In addition to the main award, "Honorable mentions" has been conferred to selected Wikipedians.