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Encyclopedia > Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales

Jimmy Wales (August 2006)[1]
Born August 7, 1966 (1966-08-07) (age 40)[2]
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Occupation President of Wikia, Inc.; Board member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation
Spouse Christine[3]
Children Kira[4]
Website User:Jimbo Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, (born August 7, 1966)[2] is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.[5][6][7][8] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2848x4288, 4395 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): User:Jimbo Wales Jimmy Wales User:Orannis Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Nickname: Rocket City Watercress Capital of the World Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Madison, Limestone Government  - Mayor Loretta Spencer Area  - City 174. ... Wikia, Inc. ... The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... For the computer game previously called Entrepreneur, see The Corporate Machine. ... Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ... Wikia is a selective wiki hosting service (or wiki farm) founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley under the name Wikicities. ...

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Personal life

Wales' father worked as a grocery store manager while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran a small private school "in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse" where Wales received his education. Most of the time there were four children in his grade so the school grouped the first through fourth grade students together and the fifth through eighth grade students together.[9] This Flagship Randalls store in Houston, Texas is an example of a supermarket. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, 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. ...


Wales enjoys sailing, and owns over 25 books on the subject[citation needed]. He has been quoted as saying that his Wikipedia entry "contains reference to my interest on the second amendment, a subject on which I only own 2 books, yet nothing on my love of sailing". The Bill of Rights in the National Archives Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, declares the necessity for a well regulated militia, and prohibits infringement of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. ...


Education

After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, Alabama, 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."[9] He received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and started with the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama, where he left with a Master's in finance.[9] After that, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the doctoral dissertation required to earn a Ph.D.[9] 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. ... Nickname: Rocket City Watercress Capital of the World Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Madison, Limestone Government  - Mayor Loretta Spencer Area  - City 174. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... A bachelors degree (Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A.) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... 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. ... Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama, in the United States. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate (or graduate) course of one to three years in duration. ... Indiana University is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... A thesis (from Greek position) is an intellectual proposition. ...


Career

Jimmy Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005.
Jimmy Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005.

From 1994-2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trader in Chicago.[9] By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives", according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine.[10] During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of a dot-com erotic search engine, Bomis, that later helped in the initial funding for Wikipedia. The nature of Bomis is disputed — Wales describes Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine" that often sold erotic materials similar in nature to "Maxim" magazine's sometimes scantily clad women. Wales disputes the opinion that Bomis dealt in "soft-core pornography," preferring the term "adult content."[11] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3504x2336, 2447 KB) Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3504x2336, 2447 KB) Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. ... Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 Since 2001, the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM) is an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls for the free software community. ... 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 specified 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 an individual or firm who buys and sells financial instruments (such as stocks or bonds) in the financial markets. ... 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. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Silvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt. ... In the United States Maxim Magazine is an industry leader with a circulation of 2. ...


In a 2007 interview Wales said that in 1999 he had a student design software for a top-down design multilingual encyclopedia website, however it was too slow to be usable.[12]


In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief.[9] 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) was Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia and the first paid editor of its successor, Wikipedia. ...


Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation

Jimmy Wales (far left) at a session on Open Source, Open Access, at the Owning the Future conference held in New Delhi, India, August 24, 2006.
Jimmy Wales (far left) at a session on Open Source, Open Access, at the Owning the Future conference held in New Delhi, India, August 24, 2006.
Main article: History of Wikipedia

After Larry Sanger publicly proposed on January 10, 2001 the idea of using a wiki to create an encyclopedia, Wales installed wiki software on a server and authorized Sanger to pursue the project under his supervision. Sanger dubbed the project "Wikipedia" and, with Wales, laid down the founding principles, content and established an Internet-based community of contributors during that year. Wikipedia was initially intended to be a wiki-based site for collaboration on early encyclopedic content for submission to Nupedia, but Wikipedia's rapid growth soon outstripped Nupedia's process capacity to review new content.[citation needed] Sanger was laid off in early 2002 and he then resigned from the leadership of Wikipedia.[13][14] Wales has said that he initially was so worried with the concept that he would wake up in the middle of the night, wanting to check the site for vandalism.[12] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2816x2112, 2453 KB) Summary Participants, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (extreme left), at the Owning the Future knowledge symposium held in New Delhi in August 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2816x2112, 2453 KB) Summary Participants, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (extreme left), at the Owning the Future knowledge symposium held in New Delhi in August 2006. ... Owning the Future: Ideas and Their Role in the Digital Age is the name of a knowledge symposium held in the Indian capital of New Delhi in August 2006, aimed at focussing on alternative ways of looking at sharing knowledge and concepts like intellectual property. // Organisers Session on Open Source... This article is about the urban region that is the capital of India. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Wikipedia, a project to produce a free content encyclopedia that can 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) was Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia and the first paid editor of its successor, Wikipedia. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Nupedia was a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. ...

Jimmy Wales on the Holbeinsteg bridge in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, during a shooting break of a documentary film on Wikipedia created by French-German TV station arte.
Jimmy Wales on the Holbeinsteg bridge in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, during a shooting break of a documentary film on Wikipedia created by French-German TV station arte.

In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation,[15] a non-profit organization based in St. Petersburg, Florida, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] 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. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Arte is a Franco-German TV network, which aims to promote quality programming related to the world of arts and culture. ... The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ... A non-profit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit. ... Nickname: Floridas Sunshine City Location of the city proper in the state of Florida Coordinates: Country United States State Florida County Pinellas County Founded 1876 Incorporated February 29, 1892  - Mayor Rick Baker Area    - City  133. ...


Wales has explained his motivations about Wikipedia. In an interview with Slashdot, he said, "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."[16] Slashdot, often abbreviated as /., is a science, science fiction, and technology-related news website which features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a nerdy slant. ...


Wikia

Main article: Wikia
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He also later went on to co-found, along with Angela Beesley, the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. Wikia is a selective wiki hosting service (or wiki farm) founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley under the name Wikicities. ... Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Angela Beesley (born 1977 in Norwich, England)[2] is a British Internet entrepreneur. ... Wikia is a selective wiki hosting service (or wiki farm) founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley under the name Wikicities. ...


Media appearances and honors

Wales being interviewed on the red carpet of the 2006 Time 100, by Amanda Congdon for Rocketboom, a daily Internet vidcast.
Wales being interviewed on the red carpet of the 2006 Time 100, by Amanda Congdon for Rocketboom, a daily Internet vidcast.

Wales was appointed a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2005. On October 3, 2005, according to a press release,[17] 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.[18] 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... The Time 100 The Time 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential in the world, as assembled by Time magazine. ... Amanda Congdon, born 1981 New York City, is the co-producer and host of a weekly vidcast for ABC. She has a independent videoblog called Starring Amanda Congdon. ... Rocketboom, produced and directed by Andrew Baron, is a three-minute daily vlog (videoblog) which is often presented in the format of a newscast, usually with a comedic slant. ... Redirect page ... The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. ... Harvard Law School, often referred to in shorthand as Harvard Law or 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. ... In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, including a software platform by the same name. ... 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 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.[19] May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Time, (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ... The Time 100 The Time 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential in the world, as assembled by Time magazine. ...


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.[20] 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. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... 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). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...


Wales appeared on PBS' Charlie Rose on October 6, 2006[21] and was nominated for Beard of the Year 2006.[22] Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... Charlie Rose Charles Petee Rose Jr. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Beard Liberation Front is a British pressure group which campaigns in support of beards and opposes discrimination against those who wear them. ...


On November 4, 2006, Wales appeared in the "Not My Job" segment of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a humorous news-quiz show on National Public Radio. The topic was "It must be True, I read it on Wikipedia". The three questions posed, drawn from obscure content on Wikipedia, were answered incorrectly.[23] November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Wait Wait. ... “NPR” redirects here. ...


Forbes magazine ranked him twelfth in its first annual "The Web Celebs 25".[24] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


Wales was featured in the April 2, 2007 issue of Time magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." He answered ten questions culled from Time's readership. He was the second to be interviewed in this fashion, after Chris Rock, as previously the questions were composed by a Time staff member. In his replies, he acknowledged the limitations of Wikipedia, while defending its usefulness.[25] April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...


On April 10, 2007 the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries (in South Carolina and hosted by Converse College) had Jimmy Wales as a special guest speaker.[26] A humorous event occurred when an introductory speaker (Dr. Mark Monson) misspoke while presenting an award and said “gynecological” rather than “genealogical”. Later, during a question and answer period Wales was asked by a school aged child what Wales’s favorite article was that a third grader could read. Wales (after some consideration) said that Inherently funny word would probably be the case.[26] He later cautioned that a parent may want to check on this before sending their child to the site. However, perhaps a new word will be added to this article because the questioner after a few attempts at pronunciation asked if “genie-whatever that was” was one of those words, and if it was the study of genies. Wales advised that this question be answered by his parents and continued with the forum.[26] April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... Converse College is a womens college located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. ... The belief that certain words are inherently funny, for reasons ranging from onomatopoeia to sexual innuendo, is widespread among people who work in humor. ...


Controversy

Bomis

Main article: Bomis

In 1996, Wales founded a search portal called Bomis, which also sold erotic materials 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", with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine.[9] In an interview with Wired News, 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."[11] Silvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt. ... Silvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt. ... Erotica (from the Greek language Eros - love) — refers to works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or arousing descriptions. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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. ... Maxim is an international mens magazine that is prominent for depicting popular actresses, singers, and other female celebrities in sexually alluring poses, usually wearing lingerie or other brief attire. ... Wired News, online at Wired. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόρνη (porne) prostitute and γραφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ... 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 pornography in depicting or describing sexual behaviour. ...


Wikipedia biography

Main article: Authorship of Wikipedia

In late 2005, Wales was criticized for editing his own biography page on Wikipedia. Larry Sanger commented that "it seemed Wales was trying to rewrite history".[11][27][28] In particular, Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that Wales had removed references to Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.[28][29] He was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.[11] An article in the July 31, 2006 issue of the New Yorker magazine[30] expanded on this topic: Wikipedia, a project to produce a free content encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone, formally began on 15 January 2001 as a complement to the similar, but expert-written, Nupedia project. ... Rogers Cadenhead (b. ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ...

“ Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Wikipedia entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. "Adult content" or "glamour photography" are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes. (In January, Wales agreed to a compromise: "erotic photography.") ”

In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content.[11] He apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Wikipedia. Wales said in the Wired interview, "People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it."[11]


He continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia,[31] which he bases on the (never disputed) fact that Sanger had been his employee.[32] In 2006, Wales told the Boston Globe that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder;[31] however, Sanger was identified as a co-founder of Wikipedia at least as early as September 2001[33] and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.[34] In addition to developing Wikipedia in its early phase, Sanger claims he is also responsible for 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 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."[35] In response to Wales' revisionism,[5] Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Wikipedia by referencing earlier versions of Wikipedia pages, citing press releases from Wikipedia in the years of 2002-2004, and linking to early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.[36] In a lengthy discussion with Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, Wales said: "When you write this up please do not uncritically repeat Sanger's absurd claim to be the co-founder of Wikipedia." He added: "I am not bent out of shape about it. The facts are on my side, which is why I bother so little about it."[7] The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...


Personal philosophy

Wales is a self-avowed "Objectivist to the core," although he says, "I think I do a better job — than a lot of people who self-identify as Objectivists — of not pushing my point of view on other people."[37] When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on C-SPAN's 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.[9] From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy".[38] Objectivism is a philosophy[1] developed by Ayn Rand that encompasses positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. ... 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. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Q&A is a weekly television program that airs Sunday nights on C-SPAN, and is hosted by Brian Lamb. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The Libertarian Party is an American political party founded in 1971. ...


Published works by Wales

  • Shaw College, the fourth College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In probability and statistics, the log-normal distribution is the probability distribution of any random variable whose logarithm is normally distributed. ... Shaw College(逸夫書院） is the fourth college of The Chinese University of Hong Kong named after its patron, Sir Run Run Shaw who donated 5 hundred million dollars setting it up. ...

Sources and notes

  1. ^ Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google. Times Online (2006-12-23). Retrieved on 2006-12-23.
  2. ^ a b "Wales, Jimmy", Britannica Book of the Year, 2007
  3. ^ "Board of Trustees" at Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
  4. ^ Times Online Article about Jimmy Wales
  5. ^ a b Mitchell, Dan. "Insider Editing at Wikipedia", New York Times, 2005-12-24. Retrieved on 2007-03-26. 
  6. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/January_2002 Wikipedia press release 01/15/2002
  7. ^ a b Bergstein, Brian. "Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia", ABC News, Associated Press, 2007-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-03-26. “The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem particularly controversial - Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, isn't happy about it.”  — Brian Bergstein.
  8. ^ McNichol, Tom. "Wikipedia founder hunts for gold", Business 2.0, CNN, 2007-03-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-10. 
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h Lamb, Brian (2005-09-25). Q&A: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder. C-SPAN. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.
  10. ^ Pink, Daniel H. (2005-03-13). The Book Stops Here. Wired. Retrieved on 2006-10-09.
  11. ^ a b c d e f Hansen, Evan. Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. Wired News. Wired. Retrieved on 2006-02-14.
  12. ^ a b In Search of an Online Utopia 2007-02-01.
  13. ^ My resignation--Larry Sanger 2002-03-01. Retrieved on 2006-10-19.
  14. ^ Wikipedia's co-founder eyes a Digital Universe 2006-01-06.
  15. ^ Wikimedia foundation bylaws.
  16. ^ Wales, Jimmy (2004-07-28). "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Replies". Slashdot. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
  17. ^ "Wikipedia Founder Joins Socialtext Board", Socialtext, 2005-10-03. 
  18. ^ "Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members", Creative Commons, 2006-03-30. 
  19. ^ Anderson, Chris. "Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Wikipedia", Time, 2006-05-08. Retrieved on 2006-04-30. 
  20. ^ EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards. Kansas City infoZine News (2006-04-28). Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
  21. ^ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5184822358876183858&#2310s video
  22. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2006/12/beard_of_the_year.shtml
  23. ^ "This Week's Show 4 November 2006" (2006-11-04).
  24. ^ Ewalt, David M. (2007-01-23). The Web Celeb 25. Retrieved on 2007-04-23.
  25. ^ "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales", Time Magazine, March 21, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-24. “The key is to look at the quality of articles. The quality of Wikipedia today compared with three years ago is a dramatic improvement. But people do need to be aware of how it is created and edited so they can treat it with the appropriate caution.”  — Jimmy Wales.
  26. ^ a b c Wales, Jimmy. Speech Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina (April 10, 2007).
  27. ^ Rhys Blakely. Wikipedia founder edits himself. Times Online. Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
  28. ^ a b Rogers Cadenhead. Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1. Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
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  30. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact
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  32. ^ Jonathan Sidener. "Everyone's Encyclopedia", San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved on 2006-10-15. 
  33. ^ Peter Meyers. "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You", New York Times, 2001-09-20. Retrieved on 2006-10-15. “It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work," said Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder and the chief executive of Bomis, a San Diego search engine company that donates the computer resources for the project. "There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things." Instead, he said, "there's a general consensus among all of the really busy volunteers about what an encyclopedia article needs to be like.” 
  34. ^ Sanger, Larry. What Wikipedia is and why it matters. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
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  36. ^ Larry Sanger. My role in Wikipedia (links). larrysanger.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-21.
  37. ^ http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/01/29/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-rusirius-google-objectivism/
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Main articles Bomis · Nupedia · Wikipedia · Wikimedia Foundation · Wikimania · MediaWiki
People Jimmy Wales · Larry Sanger · Tim Shell · Wikipedia community
Events and individuals Alan Mcilwraith · Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China · Congressional staffer edits to Wikipedia · Essjay controversy · Henryk Batuta · Joshua Gardner · Seigenthaler controversy · QuakeAID
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NAME Wales, Jimmy Donal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wales, Jimbo
SHORT DESCRIPTION American Internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer; founder of Wikipedia
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntsville, Alabama
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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