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Jimmy Wales
05/22/2007
Jimmy Wales
A conversation about Wikipedia with the co-founder
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A conversation about Wikipedia, web technology, and the future of search with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.
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Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales

Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur. A former professional futures and options trader and an aficionado of objectivist philosophy, Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia derived from the open source model, which he founded with Larry Sanger. Wales is currently the director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that encompasses Wikipedia and its younger sister projects, such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikiquotes.

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