Jimmy Wales

I Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (; mibait Agosto 7, 1966) metung yang Americanung negosianti king Aptas (Internet entrepreneur) ampong kayabeng talatátag at saka promoter ning Wikipedia."The Wikipedia project was founded in January 2001 by Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger," quoted from the April 25th, 2004 first-ever press release issued by the Wikimedia Foundation. •


Mibait ya i Wales king Huntsville, Alabama. Megaral ya king metung a malating pipagaralan a privadu, king university preparatory school, at kaibat miyari ya kareng cursung bachelor's ampong master's degrees king pisasalpian (finance). Kabang atiu king escuelang graduadu o graduate school, tinuru ya kareng aduang universidad. Kaibat, megobra ya king pisalapian, at migsilbi yang pekapun king pamanialugsug (research director) ning metung a cumpaniang futures and options king Chicago kilub ning mapilang banua. Aniang 1996, tetag ne kayabe la reng aduang ka-sosiu ing Bomis, metung a web portal o pasbung pang-Aptas a  pang-lalaki, at migdala (hosted), ampong minie cualta aniang purmeru, king peer-reviewed encyclopedia, ing Nupedia (2000–2003) ampo ing kayang katuki, ing Wikipedia.

Aniang 2001, kayabe ya i Larry Sanger ampo reng aliwa, sinaup ya i Wales king pamibulalag king Wikipedia, metung a enciclopediang libri ampong makabusni laman (open-content) a e migluat meragul mayap ampong meging sikat.a b g h i "Wales, though, was a businessman. He wanted to build a free encyclopedia, and Wikipedia offered a very rapid and economically efficient means to that end. The articles flooded in, many were good, and they cost him almost nothing. [...] In 2003, Wales [decided to] diminish his own authority by transferring Wikipedia and all of its assets to the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, whose sole purpose is to set general policy for Wikipedia and its allied projects. [...] Wales’s benign rule has allowed Wikipedia to do what it does best: grow. The numbers are staggering."
c "Wales focused on the bottom-up strategy using Web rings, and it worked. Bomis users built hundreds of rings—on cars, computers, sports, and especially 'babes' (e.g., the Anna Kournikova Web ring), effectively creating an index of the 'laddie' Web. Instead of helping all users find all content, Bomis found itself positioned as the Playboy of the Internet, helping guys find guy stuff."
d e f "The wiki [technology] quickly gained a devoted following within the software community. And there it remained until January 2001, when Sanger had dinner with an old friend named Ben Kovitz. [...] Over tacos that night, Sanger explained his concerns about Nupedia’s lack of progress, the root cause of which was its serial editorial system. [...] Kovitz brought up the wiki and sketched out 'wiki magic,' the mysterious process by which communities with common interests work to improve wiki pages by incremental contributions. If it worked for the rambunctious hacker culture of programming, Kovitz said, it could work for any online collaborative project. The wiki could break the Nupedia bottleneck by permitting volunteers to work simultaneously all over the project." Aniang makikilala ne ing Wikipedia, i Wales ing kayang meging promotor ampong talapagsalita. King kasalesayan, i Wales ing tuturing dang co-founder ning Wikipedia, dapot sasalungat ya king aus a "co-" at tuturing ne ing sarili nang sole founder o bukud a talatátag. Magsilbi ya king Board of Trustees ning Wikimedia Foundation, ing e magtubung aguman a paniaup (non-profit charitable organization) a magpalakad king Wikipedia. Ya ing tatalan king puestung "community founder" a tutulduan ning lupung o board. Aniang 2004, kayabe ya kareng mitátag king Wikia, metung a privadu ampong libring web-hosting service, kayabe ya ing kalupa nang Wikimedia trustee, i Angela Beesley.
Mekatadua ne mekiasawa i Wales, at atin yang anak a babai kang Christine, ing kadua nang asawa, nung kaninu ya kawani. Lalarawan ne ing sarili na antimong Objectivist ampong, maki kapikakunuan, metung a libertarian. Uli ning kayang papil king pamaglalang king Wikipedia, inabe ne ning Time kareng peka ma-influenciang tau king yatu aniang 2006. I Wales ing de factong pekapun ning Wikipedia; ing exactu nang puestu king proyectu pididibatian ding malda ampo kareng diariu.

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 Suglung palual 

 Jimmy Wales, Wales' official blog
 Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales, Wales' role in the English Wikipedia

 Audio of interview with Wales about wikipedia on EconTalk podcast
 , from April 9, 2009.

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