NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jimbo Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is the founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation,^[1] a non-profit corporation that operates the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and several other wiki projects. He is also founder of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc., which is legally unrelated to Wikimedia. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x1200, 369 KB) Summary Picture of Jimmy Wales taken Thursday April 13th in San Francisco, CA. by uploader User:SamuelWantman. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area Ranked 30th - Total 52,423 sq mi (135,775 kmÂ²) - Width 190 miles (306 km) - Length 330 miles (531 km) - % water 3. ... The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ... The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ... A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ) is an international Web-based free-content encyclopedia. ... A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or <wick-ey>[1]) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. ... Wikia, Inc. ...

In May 2006, Wales was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people.^[2] (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...

Early life and education

Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama. His father, now retired, was a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris, and grandmother, Erma, ran a small private school, "in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse,"^{[citation needed]} where Wales was educated. There were four children in his grade most of the time, so the school grouped together first through fourth grades, and fifth through eighth grades. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A shop that sells food, either a Supermarket or a much smaller place. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... Williamson School was a one-room school in Blanch, Caswell County, North Carolina One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

A 2005 Time magazine article incorrectly reported that Wales was homeschooled.^[3] Strictly speaking he was not, but he did note that his schooling experience was "in a sense similar",^{[citation needed]} since his mother and grandmother were his primary teachers. The school's philosophy of education was significantly influenced by the Montessori method, and students had a fair amount of freedom to study whatever they liked. Wales has said that he spent many hours poring over the World Book Encyclopedia during this time.^[4] Thomas Edison attended compulsory school for only three months, after which he was taught at home by his mother and a tutor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... World Book Encyclopedia is, according to its publisher in the United States, the number-one selling print encyclopedia in the world [1]. The first edition (1917) contained 8 volumes. ...

Preparatory school and university

After eighth grade, Wales went to Randolph School, a college prep school, which was an early supporter of computer labs and other technology for student use. Wales has said that the school was expensive for his family, but that education was regarded as important. "Education was always a passion in my household … you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life."^{[citation needed]} He received his Bachelor's degree from Auburn University and his Master's from the University of Alabama. Later, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance programs at the University of Alabama and Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the doctoral dissertation required to earn a Ph.D. Randolph School is an American independent private kindergarten-through-12th-grade college preparatory school chartered in 1959 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. ... A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Auburn University (AU) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama in the United States. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA, or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... Look up thesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Career

Wales went on to become a futures and options trader in Chicago, and within six years had earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives."^[5] In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a certain underlying instrument at a certain date in the future, at a pre-set price. ... Main article: Option A stock option is a specific type of option that uses the stock itself as an underlying instrument to determine the options pay-off (and therefore its value). ... A Stock Trader or a Stock Investor is a financial markets professional or firm, who buys and sells financial instruments, such as stocks and bonds. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...

In 1996, Wales founded a search portal called Bomis, which also sold adult content until mid-2005. He was asked in a September 2005 C-SPAN interview about his previous involvement with what the interviewer, Brian Lamb, called "dirty pictures". In response, Wales described Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine."^[6] In an interview with Wired, he also explained that he disputed the categorization of Bomis content as "soft-core pornography": "If R-rated movies are porn, it was porn. In other words, no, it was not."^[7] He is no longer actively involved in the company. Bomis is a dot-com company founded in 1996. ... C-SPAN (the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming. ... Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and territories and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ... Softcore is a form of pornography that is less explicit than hardcore material in depicting or describing sexual behaviour. ...

In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia.com ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief. While Wales was CEO, Bomis donated over US$100,000 (primarily through salaries and providing free Internet access) to Nupedia and Wikipedia, and continued supporting them into 2002. Nupedia was a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. ... Larry Sanger Lawrence Mark Larry Sanger (born July 16, 1968) has been an organizer of various online encyclopedia projects, most notably, organizing Wikipedia as a free, open, and collaborative online encyclopedia and developing many Wikipedia policies. ... This article is about general United States currency. ... Nupedia was a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ) is an international Web-based free-content encyclopedia. ...

Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation

Using a wiki to create an encyclopedia was publicly proposed by Larry Sanger on January 10, 2001, and Wales worked on setting one up, starting it on January 15, 2001. Wikipedia was at that point a wiki-based site intended for collaboration on early encyclopedic content for submission to Nupedia for peer review, but Wikipedia's rapid growth soon made it the dominant project and Nupedia was mothballed. Sanger dropped out of the project in 2002, posting a resignation on his Wikipedia user page.^[8] He has since criticized Wales's approach to the project,^[9] describing Wales as "decidedly anti-elitist". Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1712x2288, 792 KB) Description: Jimmy Wales standing at the Hohlbeinsteg bridge in Frankfurt Main, Germany during a shooting break of a documentary film about Wikipedia by the French-German TV-station Arte. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1712x2288, 792 KB) Description: Jimmy Wales standing at the Hohlbeinsteg bridge in Frankfurt Main, Germany during a shooting break of a documentary film about Wikipedia by the French-German TV-station Arte. ... Skyline of Frankfurt at night is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. ... Arte is a Franco-German TV network, which aims to promote quality programming related to the world of arts and culture. ... Wikipedia, a project to produce a free content encyclopedia that could be edited by anyone, formally began on 15 January 2001 as a complement to the similar, but expert-written, Nupedia project. ... Larry Sanger Lawrence Mark Larry Sanger (born July 16, 1968) has been an organizer of various online encyclopedia projects, most notably, organizing Wikipedia as a free, open, and collaborative online encyclopedia and developing many Wikipedia policies. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or <wick-ey>[1]) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. ... Nupedia was a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. ...

Wales later took issue with this description in a C-SPAN interview,^[6] describing himself as not anti-elitist but "perhaps anti-credentialist. To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor."

In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects. He appointed himself and two business partners who are not active Wikipedians to the five-member board; the remaining two members are elected community representatives. This move relieved him and Bomis from the increasing financial burden of supporting Wikipedia while keeping his leadership position. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ... Aerial photograph of St. ... A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ...

In 2004, Wales was quoted as saying that he had spent around US$500,000 on the establishment and operation of his Wiki projects. By the end of its February 2005 fund drive, the Wikimedia Foundation was supported entirely by grants and donations. Wales has become increasingly involved with promoting and speaking about its projects, and to this end, he travels to conferences and Wikimedia functions, such as "Wikimeets" and Wikimania. The Foundation's travel budget was US$25,000 in 2005; how much of this total was used by Wales himself has not been published.^[10] On April 14, 2006, he gave a talk at Stewart Brand's LongNow Foundation entitled "Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture," where he discussed the philosophical underpinnings of Wikipedia, his support for the Free Culture movement, and the difficulties the Wikimedia Foundation may confront as it grows in size. Wikimania is a conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stewart Brand speaking September 5, 2004 Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly. ... The book cover Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1. ...

Controversy

While Larry Sanger referred to himself as the co-founder of Wikipedia as early as January 2002,^[11] and so did the Wikipedia community,^[12] Wales says he has always called himself the sole founder of Wikipedia. The press frequently referred to Sanger and Wales as co-founders, but this began to change after Sanger's departure. For example, a 2004 Newsweek magazine article stated that "[Wales] created Wikipedia", without mentioning Sanger.^[4] In 2006, Wales told the Boston Globe that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder.^[13] Sanger has strongly contested this assertion, claiming that, in addition to developing Wikipedia in its early phase, he also had the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a free encyclopedia. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He has said: "I remember very clearly the evening when I got the idea for Wikipedia." He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."^[14] Wales has credited a Bomis employee named Jeremy Rosenfeld as the person who "initially came up with the idea to make the encyclopedia wiki-based."^[15] Image File history File linksMetadata Jimbocspan. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Jimbocspan. ... C-SPAN (the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming. ... Q&A is a weekly television program that airs Sunday nights on C-SPAN, and is hosted by Brian Lamb. ... Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. ... Newsweek Logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and Canada. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... Jeremy Rosenfeld was an employee of Bomis who, according to Jimmy Wales, the founder and President of Wikimedia Foundation, was the first to introduce Wales to the concept of a wiki. ...

In late 2005, a related controversy arose regarding Wales and the Wikipedia entry on himself. After Wired Magazine picked up on work from Rogers Cadenhead, Wales confirmed that he had (visibly and under his own name) edited his own biography on Wikipedia, a practice generally frowned upon within the Wikipedia community and even by Wales himself.^[16] Rogers Cadenhead (b. ...

Wales's edits^[17] were in line with his view that Larry Sanger should not be considered a co-founder of Wikipedia. When some other editors undid his edits, Wales repeated them twice. His edits changed specific references to Wikipedia's origins as well as the description of Bomis. Wales said in the Wired interview, "People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it."^[18] The article said: "Wales has also repeatedly revised the description of a search site he founded called Bomis, which included a section with adult photos called 'Bomis Babes'."^[18]

Motivations behind Wikipedia

In an interview with Slashdot, Wales explained the purpose of Wikipedia by saying, "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."^[19] Likewise, in a December 2005 appeal for donations to Wikimedia, Wales explained his motivation for his Wikipedia work by saying "I'm doing this for the child in Africa."^[20] Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website/Forum updated many times daily, with articles that are often short summaries of stories on other websites, links to those stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. ...

In response to criticisms about the inconsistency of these motivations with Wales' adherence to Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy (see Philosophical and political views in this article), Wales replied, "Do we have a source for me claiming that my 'Wikipedia activities do not serve a selfish end'? No, we do not. (…) For what is it worth, I think it is in my rational self-interest to care about what happens to kids in Africa, and far from being destructive of my self-interest, it is beneficial to my self-interest."^[21] It has been suggested that The Ayn Rand Collective be merged into this article or section. ... Objectivism is the philosophical system developed by Russian-American philosopher and writer Ayn Rand. ... Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales is the founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation,[1] a non-profit corporation that operates Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, and several other wiki projects. ...

Philosophical and political views

Wales has been a passionate adherent of the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on Q&A about Rand, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a libertarian, qualifying his remark by referring to the Libertarian Party as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles.^[22] From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy,"^[23] and in 2002, he began moderating Atlantis,^[24] an Objectivism-related mailing list on the Objectivist community site We the Living. Objectivism is the philosophical system developed by Russian-American philosopher and writer Ayn Rand. ... It has been suggested that The Ayn Rand Collective be merged into this article or section. ... Q&A is a weekly television program that airs Sunday nights on C-SPAN, and is hosted by Brian Lamb. ... Libertarianism is a political philosophy[1] advocating that individuals should be free to do whatever they wish with their person or property, as long as they do not infringe on the same liberty of others. ... Libertarian Party can refer to several libertarian political parties, including: United States Libertarian Party Libertarian Party of Canada Movimiento Libertario of Costa Rica The Libertarianz of New Zealand Libertarian Party of Australia There are also political parties that hold some of the same policies as the above parties but do...

Other activities

Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, Wales has founded the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. (separate from Wikimedia), which hosts various wikis and manages the Wikia project. Wikia, Inc. ... The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ... Wikia logo, based on the old Wikicities logo by Christoph Struber. ...

He was appointed a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School in 2005. On October 3, 2005, according to a press release,^[25] Wales joined the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses. In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Creative Commons.^[26] The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. ... The crest of Harvard Law School is drawn from the Royall coat of arms Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, including a software platform by the same name. ... Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ...

Wales lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife and daughter. Aerial photograph of St. ...

Awards

Wales received an honorary degree from Knox College on June 3, 2006. The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded him a Pioneer Award on May 3, 2006.^[27] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1259x705, 214 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Jimmy Wales Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1259x705, 214 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Jimmy Wales Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner... Rocketboom (subtitled: daily with amanda congdon) [1] is a three-minute daily videoblog created and co-owned by producer-director Andrew Baron and Amanda Congdon. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum, not to be confused with an honors degree) is an academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ... Knox College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Galesburg, Illinois. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... EFF Logo The EFF uses the blue ribbon as symbolism for their Free Speech defense. ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Wales was the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the May 8, 2006 special edition of Time ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing 100 influential people.^[2] May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...

Published works

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References

^ Wikimedia Foundation Inc.. Bylaws. wikimediafoundation.org. Retrieved on 2006-05-21.
^ ^a ^b Anderson, Chris, "Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Wikipedia", 2006-05-08. Retrieved on 2006-04-30.
^ Taylor, Chris. "It's a Wiki, Wiki World", Time. Retrieved on 2005-05-29.
^ ^a ^b Brad Stone. "It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki", Newsweek, 2004-11-01. Retrieved on 2006-05-20.
^ Pink, Daniel H. The Book Stops Here. Wired Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-06-28.
^ ^a ^b Lamb, Brian. Interview with Jimmy Wales. C-SPAN. Retrieved on 2006-03-10.
^ Cadenhead, Rogers. Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1. Retrieved on 2005-12-19.
^ Sanger, Larry. User Page. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
^ Sanger, Larry (2004-12-31). Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism. Kuro5hin.
^ Wikimedia Foundation's 2005 Budget. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
^ Sanger, Larry. What Wikipedia is and why it matters. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
^ When Wales dropped his initial opposition to having an article about himself (September 9, 2004) the article that was written said that he "is an Internet entrepreneur, most famous for his founding, with Larry Sanger, of Wikipedia ... Wales became famous after he co-founded Wikipedia in January 15, 2001". (Various Authors (2004-09-09). Jimmy Wales. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.) This stood unchallenged until March 28, 2005.
^ Janet Knott (2006-02-12). Bias, sabotage haunt Wikipedia's free world. The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
^ Sanger, Larry. "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir", Slashdot, 2005-04-18. Retrieved on 2005-04-18.
^ Wales, Jimmy (2005-12-02). Edit to Wikipedia article "Jimmy Wales". Wikipedia.
^ Wales, Jimmy (2003-08-04). Jimmy Wales response in "Daniel C. Boyer on wikipedia" thread. wikien-l mailing list. Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
^ Jimmy Wales' edits of 28 October, 9 November, and 2 December, 2005.
^ ^a ^b Hansen, Evan. Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. Wired News. Wired. Retrieved on 2006-02-14.
^ Wales, Jimmy (2004-07-28). "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Replies". Slashdot. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
^ Wales, Jimmy. "A Personal Appeal from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales". wikimediafoundation.org. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
^ Wales, Jimmy. "Talk:Jimmy Wales". en.wikipedia.org. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
^ Wales, Jimmy. "Q & A: Jimmy Wales". Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
^ Wales, Jimmy (23 September 1992). "Re: Objectivism of Ayn Rand". talk.philosophy.misc. (Google Groups).
^ The wetheliving.com website is down as of 2006-06-05 - the prior cite is Jimmy Wales begins moderating Atlantis mailing list. (unknown).
^ "Wikipedia Founder Joins Socialtext Board", Socialtext, 3 October 2005.
^ "Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members", Creative Commons, 30 March 2006.
^ EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards. Kansas City infoZine News: (2006-04-28). Retrieved on 2006-06-05.

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