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Jimmy Donal Wales, ou simplesmente Jimmy Wales, também apelidado de Jimbo Wales, (Huntsville, 7 de agosto de 1966) [1] é um empresário americano da Internet, mais conhecido pelo público por ter sido um dos fundadores da Wikipédia, em 2001.
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966; Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is an 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).
Ranked by Forbes Magazine as a “Web Celeb”, Jimmy Donal Wales is a U.S. Internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer, and technology visionary, who is best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, an international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
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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Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia and a member of its governing board. He also supports and celebrates the Wikimedia movement and its volunteers through talks and awards.
Wales é um dos mais destacados empreendedores da internet, pioneiro em wiki – nome genérico para websites colaborativos – e visionário da tecnologia. É cofundador da Wikipedia, a maior enciclopédia on-line colaborativa internacional com conteúdo aberto e gratuito.
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.
