Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales
Wales in August 2019
Born	Jimmy Donal Wales (1966-08-07) August 7, 1966 (age 58) Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Other names	Jimbo (screen name)[1]
Education	Auburn University (BS) University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (MS) Indiana University, Bloomington
Occupations	Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, financial trader (formerly)
Title	President of Fandom, Inc. (2004–present) Chair of Wikimedia Foundation (2003–2006) Chair emeritus of Wikimedia Foundation (2006–present)
Successor	Florence Devouard (as Chair of Wikimedia Foundation)
Board member of	Wikimedia Foundation Creative Commons Sunlight Foundation (advisory board) (until September 2020) MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (advisory board) Guardian Media Group (until April 2017)[2]
Spouse(s)	Pamela Green ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 1993)​ Christine Rohan ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2011)​ Kate Garvey ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	3 daughters
Awards	See below
Jimmy Wales' voice Recorded August 2014
Website	jimmywales.com
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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (/ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz/; 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 finance. In 1996, he and two partners started Bomis. Bomis was an Internet portal with entertainment and adult content. The company gave money for Nupedia (2000–2003) and, after that, Wikipedia.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Garside, Juliette (August 3, 2014). "Jimmy Wales: digital champion of free speech". The Observer. London. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
2. ↑ Williams, Christopher (April 25, 2017). "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales exits Guardian board over conflict of interest with Wikitribune news site". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235.
3. ↑ * Horovitz, David (July 1, 2011). "Jimmy Wales's benevolent Wikipedia wisdom". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
   • "Jimmy Wales". Monroe, Florida's County Clerk website (Marriage License Database). Retrieved May 21, 2008.
   • Clifford Thompson, ed. (February 28, 2007). Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson. ISBN 978-0-8242-10748.
   • Who's Who In America: Diamond Edition (60th ed.). Marquis Who's Who. October 12, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8379-69909.
4. ↑ "Wikipedia: 50 languages, 1/2 million articles". Wikimedia Foundation Press Release. Wikimedia Foundation. April 25, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2009. "The Wikipedia project was founded in January 2001 by Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger," quoted from the April 25, 2004 first-ever press release issued by the Wikimedia Foundation.
    •"Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article". Wikipedia Press Release. Wikipedia. January 21, 2003. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
5. ↑ "Brain scan: The free-knowledge fundamentalist". Technology Quarterly. June 5, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2008.