Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Donal 'Jimbo' Wales
Age: born: 7 August 1966
Gender: Male
Other names: Jimbo Wales, Internet guy
Nationality: originally: American
now: British[1]
Language(s): English
Residence: London, England, United Kingdom[2]
Home wiki(s): English Wikipedia, Wikia
Editing status: Active
Pers. website: JimmyWales.com
Contact(s): https://Twitter.com/jimmy_wales

Jimmy Donal 'Jimbo' Wales, born 7 August 1966, is an American born and raised internet entrepreneur.[3] On 15 January 2001, Wales, together with Larry Sanger, co-founded Wikipedia, which is now the world's largest internet encyclopedia, compiled of user-generated content in a wiki format.[3] Wales is also the founder and Chairman Emeritus of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), itself founded June 2003, which owns and runs Wikipedia and its related sites and projects,[3] totalling nearly 900 wikis. Subsequently, in 2004, Wales, along with his then new British business partner Angela Beesley, co-founded Wikia (now known as Fandom, Inc.), a commercial wiki hosting service, commonly known as a wiki farm.[3]

Wales is passionate about the 'wiki' format; on his Wikipedia user page, he encourages others to edit his page; in the faith that any of the 2,000 other Wikipedians who monitor his own page via their 'watchlists' will revert any 'bad faith' edits. For any editor who is unsure of their own motives, simply ask: what would Jimbo do?.

Wales, an atheist, thrice married and twice divorced, has lived in London, England, in the United Kingdom since 2012,[2] and became a British citizen in 2019.[1] He has been listed one of the '100 Most Influential People' by Time Magazine in 2006, and ranked by Forbes Magazine as a 'Web Celeb'.[3]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wales, Jimmy (16 September 2019), @jimmy_wales; I just became a UK citizen, quite happy about that. It occurs to me that perhaps a few MPs should actually take the "Life in the UK" test and study the manual!; Twitter.com; Twitter; accessed 23 December 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hough, Stephen (11 March 2012); Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia chief to advise Whitehall on policy; Telegraph.co.uk; The Daily Telegraph; London, England; accessed 23 December 2022; (archived 11 January 2022).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 About Jimmy Wales; JimmyWales.com; accessed 4 February 2019.

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Wikia staff team – current and former (view / edit)

The following wiki people are current or former members of the Wikia staff team, and selected members of their leadership. These are dedicated folks who have either founded and / or owned the original Wikicities wiki farm; became part of the subsequent rebrand into Wikia, including its management board and senior leaders; to the current Fandom rebranding. It may also include senior members from Wikia, Inc.'s subsequent acquisitions of Gamepedia.com, D&D Beyond, Cortex RPG, Muthead, Futhead, Fanatical, and Fandomatic.

Current staff [1][2]
Former staff [1]
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fandom | About Us; about.Fandom.com; Wikia, Inc.; accessed 25 October 2021.
  2. ↑ Community Central: Staff; Community.Fandom.com; Fandom Community Central; accessed 28 February 2020.
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