Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an American 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).

Jimmy Wales (born August 8, 1966, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. [see Researcher’s Note]) is an American entrepreneur, who cofounded Wikipedia, a free Internet-based encyclopaedia operating under an open-source management style.

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (/ ˈ d oʊ n əl ˈ w eɪ l z /; born August 7, 1966 [3]) is an American-born British Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the people who started Wikipedia and Wikia. [4] [5] Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. There, he went to Randolph School. He then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ...

Jimmy Wales is an American-British entrepreneur, famous as the co-founder of ‘Wikipedia’, the free online encyclopedia. As a child, he received a unique kind of private school education, where he spent many hours studying encyclopedias.

2024年1月22日 · Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001. He was an American internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Wikipedia, one of the world's most popular and widely used online reference resources. He was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

2024年3月27日 · Behind this world-changing movement was Jimmy Wales, an unassuming genius who built online communities to empower ordinary people. Let‘s examine his background, achievements, personal life and the evolution of his radical vision.

Wales earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Auburn University and a master’s at the University of Alabama. From 1994 to 2000, he was the research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago.

Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia. Want to use TED Talks in your organization?

2025年1月15日 · Huntsville native Jimmy Wales (1966- ) is an entrepreneur who is best known as the major founder of Wikipedia, a groundbreaking open-forum online encyclopedia. He is also the president of Fandom (formerly Wikia), a wiki hosting service, and chair emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit funding arm of Wikipedia.

Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia.org, as well as other wiki-related organizations, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. Wales is also Founder and Chair Emeritus, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit corporation that ...