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Jimmy Donal «Jimbo» [1] Wales (Huntsville, Alabama, 8 de agosto de 1966) [2] [3] es un empresario de Internet estadounidense, fundador y promotor, junto a Larry Sanger, de Wikipedia, una enciclopedia basada en el concepto wiki y el modelo de software libre.
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966; Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).
En 2001 Jimmy Wales creó Wikipedia, la primera enciclopedia digital del mundo. Aquel pequeño proyecto —en el que contó con la ayuda del filósofo Larry Sanger — ofrece hoy treinta y siete millones de artículos en casi trescientas lenguas. ¿Por qué creó Wikipedia? Wikipedia parte de una idea radical: dar acceso libre al conocimiento universal.
On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales started Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free, open content encyclopedia. It grew and became popular very quickly. As Wikipedia became known to the public, he became the project’s promoter and spokesperson. He is often called a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has argued against ...
Emma Bryce. 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.
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Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, continues on in the Wikimedia movement as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees, 20 years after he first orchestrated Wikipedia’s debut on the internet. He also continues to inspire people across the Wikimedia movement, as with his talks at Wikimedia events and his personal celebration ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said that the concept of Wikipedia came when he was a graduate student at Indiana University, where he was impressed with the successes of the open-source movement and found Richard Stallman's Emacs Manifesto promoting free software and a sharing economy interesting.
