Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
Jump to content
From Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales
human
Ein sex anaa gender
male
Ein country of citizenship
United States
United Kingdom
Name in native language
Jimmy Donal Wales
Birth name
Jimmy Donal Wales
Name wey dem give am
Jimmy
Donal
Family name
Wales
Pseudonym
Jimbo
Name in kana
ジミー・ドナル・ウェールズ
Ein date of birth
7 August 1966
Place dem born am
Huntsville
Spouse
Kate Garvey
Native language
American English
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign
American English
Ein field of work
website
Internet
collaborative software
encyclopedia
entrepreneurship
Employer
Fandom, Inc.
Bomis
Position ehold
Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
non-executive director
Founder
s seat of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Educate for
Auburn University
University of Alabama
Indiana University Bloomington
Randolph School
Residence
London
Affiliation string
Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia.org
Religion anaa worldview
irreligion
Notable work
Wikipedia
The Seven Rules of Trust
Member of
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation
Owner of
Bomis
WikiTribune
Trust Café
Influenced by
Ayn Rand
Friedrich Hayek
Public key fingerprint
997B 591F 0D14 CB0F A0BF 3A70 3E65 3930 623D 4997
Dema official website
Website account on
Fandom
Trust Café
Fandom
Jimmy Donal Wales
(dem born am August 7, 1966), dem san so know am as
Jimbo Wales
, be American–British Internet entrepreneur, webmaster den former financial trader. He be co-founder for de online non-profit encyclopedia
Wikipedia
den de for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia). He job for oda online projects top, wey dey include Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, den WT Social.
Na dem born Wales insyd Huntsville, Alabama, wer he attend de Randolph School. He earn bachelor's den master's degrees insyd finance from Auburn University den de University of Alabama, respectively. Insyd graduate school, Wales teach at two universities; he depart before he plete PhD make he take a job insyd finance den later he work as de research director of Chicago Options Associates.
Insyd 1996, Wales den two partners found Bomis, web portal dem know for featuring erotic photographs. Bomis provide de initial funding for de free peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003). For January 15, 2001, plus Larry Sanger den odas, Wales launch Wikipedia, free open-content encyclopedia wey enjoy rapid growth den popularity. As ein public profile grow, Wales cam turn ein promoter den spokesman. Though he be historically credited as co-founder, he dispute dis, wey he dey declare ein self de sole founder.
Wales dey serve for de Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees top, de charity wey he help establish make e operate Wikipedia, dey hold ein board-appointed "community founder" seat. Wales dey give an annual "State of the Wiki" address at de Wikimania conference.
For ein role in make he create Wikipedia,
Time
name am one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" insyd 2006.
Publications
edit
edit source
Brooks, Robert; Corson, Jon; Wales, Jimmy Donal (1994). "The Pricing of Index Options When the Underlying Assets All Follow a Lognormal Diffusion".
Advances in Futures and Options Research
. SSRN
5735
Wales, Jimmy; Weckerle, Andrea (December 31, 2008). "Foreword". In Fraser, Matthew; Dutta, Soumitra (eds.).
Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World
(1st ed.). Wiley. ISBN
978-0-470-74014-9
. OCLC
233939846
Wales, Jimmy; Weckerle, Andrea (January 8, 2009).
"Commentary: Create a tech-friendly U.S. government"
. CNN.
Archived
from the original on August 16, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2009.
Wales, Jimmy; Weckerle, Andrea (February 10, 2009). "Foreword". In Powell, Juliette (ed.).
33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking
(1st ed.). Financial Times Press. ISBN
978-0-13-715435-7
. OCLC
244066502
Wales, Jimmy; Weckerle, Andrea (March 3, 2009). "Foreword". In Weber, Larry (ed.).
Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business
(2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN
978-0-470-41097-4
. OCLC
244060887
Wales, Jimmy (March 17, 2009). "Foreword". In Lih, Andrew (ed.).
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
(1st ed.). Hyperion. ISBN
978-1-4013-0371-6
. OCLC
232977686
Wales, Jimmy; Weckerle, Andrea (March 30, 2009).
"Most Define User-Generated Content Too Narrowly"
Advertising Age
80
. Archived from
the original
on July 18, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2009.
Wales, Jimmy; Weckerle, Andrea (December 28, 2009).
"Keep a Civil Cybertongue"
The Wall Street Journal
Archived
from the original on May 19, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
Mons, B.; Ashburner, M.; Chichester, C.; Van Mulligen, E.; Weeber, M.; Den Dunnen, J.; Van Ommen, G. J.; Musen, M.; Cockerill, M.; Hermjakob, H.; Mons, A.; Packer, A.; Pacheco, R.; Lewis, S.; Berkeley, A.; Melton, W.; Barris, N.; Wales, J.; Meijssen, G.; Moeller, E.; Roes, P.; Borner, K.; Bairoch, A. (2008).
"Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins"
Genome Biology
(5): R89. doi:
10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r89
. ISSN
1465-6906
. PMC
2441475
. PMID
18507872
Wales for de 2011 Gottlieb Duttweiler Awards Show
Wales dey receive honorary doctorate from Maastricht University, 2015
Jimmy Wales dey accept de Dan David Prize for de Tel Aviv University, 2015
References
edit
edit source
Toor, Amar (July 15, 2012).
"Jimmy Wales, Mary Gardiner address Wikipedia's gender gap at Wikimania conference"
The Verge
Archived
from the original on July 8, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
Bibliography
edit
edit source
Poe, Marshall (September 2006).
"The Hive"
The Atlantic Monthly
298
(2): 86–94.
Archived
from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved February 29, 2008.
Read further
edit
edit source
Wikimania: Meet the Wikipedians. Those "persnickety," techy types who keep your favorite Internet information website brimming with data
."
60 Minutes
: Morley Safer interviewing Jimmy Wales. First aired on April 5, 2015. Rebroadcast on July 26, 2015.
Wales, Jimmy (July 2005).
"The birth of Wikipedia – 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"
. TED talks.
On Being w/Krista Tippett
Archived
January 9, 2017, at de Wayback Machine; Jimmy Wales – The Sum of All Human Knowledge (broadcast WAMU American University) September 11, 2016
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Taking on Facebook and the Dangers Lurking in the Rise of Artificial Intelligence
", by Fred Guterl,
Newsweek
, December 12, 2019.
External links
edit
edit source
Jimmy Wales
at Wikipedia ein sisto projects
Wikimedia Commons
Wikiquote
Wikidata
Wikinews
Wikisource
Discussions
from Meta-Wiki
Official website
Jimmy Wales
at IMDb
Jimmy Wales
on
Charlie Rose
Appearances
on C-SPAN
Jimmy Wales
at TED
Roberts, Russ (March 9, 2009).
"Wales on Wikipedia"
EconTalk
. Library of Economics and Liberty.
Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales
, Wales ein role insyd de English Wikipedia as described by ein editors
You can look it up: The Wikipedia story
– excerpt from de 2014 book
The Innovators
Wikipedia userpage
Wikia userpage
Wales, Jimmy (December 9, 2016).
"How Wikipedia Works"
cato.org
. Cato Institute.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, discusses the site, how it's treated by governments, and how it's fueled by its users.
Dem retrieve am from "
Categories
1966 births
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
British Wikimedians
Creative Commons-licensed authors
Indiana University alumni
History of Wikipedia
People wey komot Huntsville, Alabama
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members
Wikipedia people
American bloggers
American emigrants to England
American technology company founders
American social entrepreneurs
Auburn University alumni
American Wikimedians
Berkman Fellows
British technology company founders
English Wikimedians
Fandom (website)
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Intelligent Community Forum
Members of de Creative Commons board of directors
Naturalised citizens of de United Kingdom
People wey komot St. Petersburg, Florida
Recipients of de President's Medal (British Academy)
UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal recipients
University of Alabama alumni
Winners of The Economist innovation awards
Jimmy Wales
Make you add topic