Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is the founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization corporation that operates the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and several other Wiki projects. He is also founder of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc., which is legally unrelated to Wikimedia. (Note: The Whats New Media Wiki is a Wikia product)
In May 2006, Wales was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people
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===External Links===
*Jimmy Wales entry on Wikipedia
*Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias? from the Wall Street Journal
*Wikipedia founder to create user-driven search engine from Ars Technica
*Wikipedia creator turns to search from the BBC
*Community websites take wiki path from the BBC
*Readers' Q & A with Wikipedia founder from New Scientist
*Wikipedia Is Just the Start: An Interview With Jimmy Wales from WIRED (5.29.07)
*Wikipedia founder buys Grub for distributed search from New Scientist (7.31.07)
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