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Early life and education. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as August 8. His father, Jimmy Sr., was a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris Ann (née Dudley), and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning, a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales and his three ...
Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. [5] It is the host of Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website in the world. In addition, the foundation hosts 14 other related ...
Fandom (website) Fandom [a] (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia [b]) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). [9] The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.
Founded in 2004 by Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales and entrepreneur Angela Beesley, Fandom today offers a wiki hosting service and fan platform providing 40 million pages of content and ...
Starting today, you can bid in a Christie’s auction to obtain an NFT of his first Wikipedia edit. Wales is also auctioning off the Apple iMac he used to work on the website. Bidding on the non ...
November 13, 2023 at 3:01 PM. Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images. Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales took a swing at Elon Musk's tech empire, targeting the billionaire's social network X and ...
Mike Butcher interviews Jimmy Wales at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 2016. This interview is part of TechCrunch Davos Live, a live interview series that includes firesides and ...
Two years ago, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launched Wikitribune, an online publication meant to combat fake news with original stories by reporters and "citizen journalists." Wikitribune ...