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-[[Image:Jimbo at Fosdem cropped.jpg|thumb|230px|Jimmy Wales speaking at [[FOSDEM]] 2005 in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]].]]
-'''Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales''' (born [[August 7]], [[1966]]) is a [[United States|U.S.]] [[Internet]] [[entrepreneur]] and a [[wiki]] pioneer who is best known as an original creator and head of [[Wikipedia]], an international collaborative [[free content]] [[encyclopedia]] on the Internet.
-==Life before Wikipedia==
-Wales was born in [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[Alabama]]. His father, now retired, was a [[Supermarket|grocery store]] manager while Wales was growing up. Wales's mother Doris and grandmother Irma ran a small private school, "in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse," where he also went to school. There were four children in his grade most of the time, so the school grouped together first through fourth grade and fifth through eighth grade. A ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine interview incorrectly reported that Wales was [[Homeschooling|home schooled]]. Strictly speaking Wales was not, but he did note that his schooling experience was "in a sense similar" since his mother and grandmother were his primary teachers. Students had a fair amount of freedom to study whatever they liked; the school's philosophy of education was significantly influenced by [[Montessori method|Montessori]]. Wales spent many hours poring over the ''[[World Book Encyclopedia]]'' during this time. After eighth grade, Wales went to [[Randolph School]], a [[university-preparatory school|college prep school]], which was and is an early adopter of computer labs and other technology for direct student use. This prep school was expensive for the family, since they had few means, but Wales reports that his family believed education was very important: "education was always a passion in my household ... you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life."
-He received his undergraduate degree from [[Auburn University]] and his masters from the [[University of Alabama]]. Later, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. [[finance]] programs at the University of Alabama and [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]]. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but he did not write the [[doctoral dissertation]] required to earn a postgraduate degree at these institutions. Wales went on to become a [[futures contract|futures]] and [[stock options|options]] [[stock trader|trader]] in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], and within a few years had earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives." [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html?pg=3&topic=wiki&topic_set= (March 2005, Wired article)]
-In [[1996]], Wales founded a search portal called [[Bomis]] which sold original [[Internet pornography|adult content]], and included a "Bomis Babes" [[blog]] based on [[Slashcode]]. Wales is no longer president or CEO of Bomis, and now devotes most of his time to his wiki projects.
-In March [[2000]], he started a peer-reviewed open-content encyclopedia [[Nupedia|''Nupedia.com'']] ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired [[Larry Sanger]] to be its editor-in-chief.
-[[Image:Jimbo Wales in France cropped.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
-==Development of Wikipedia==
-{{main|History of Wikipedia}}
-On [[January 15]], [[2001]], Wales, Larry Sanger and several others set up [[Wikipedia]], a similar [[wiki]]-based site intended for collaboration on early encyclopedic content before submitting it to [[Nupedia]] for peer review. Wikipedia's rapid growth soon made it the dominant project and Nupedia was mothballed. Sanger did most of the early development of Nupedia, while Wales mainly provided the necessary capital. Wales considers himself the sole founder of Wikipedia as Sanger was his employee, though Jeremy Rosenfeld initially came up with the idea to make the encylopedia wiki-based and Sanger coined the name 'Wikipedia'. Sanger has since dropped out of the project. His resignation can be seen at his [[User:Larry Sanger|user page]]. Sanger has since criticised Wales's approach to the project - [http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25] - painting Wales as being "decidedly anti-elitist". Wales disagrees with Sanger's viewpoint, saying that he is not anti-elitist, but "perhaps anti-credentialist." Wales says, "To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they‘re doing fantastic work I don‘t care if they‘re a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters. ... You can't coast on your credentials on Wikipedia... you have to enter the [[marketplace of ideas]] and engage with people."
-In mid-2003, Wales set up the [[Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation]], a [[St. Petersburg, Florida]]-based [[non-profit organization]], to support Wikipedia and its younger sister projects. Since then he has become increasingly involved with promoting and speaking about the foundation's projects. As of 2005, Wales is the foundation's president and chairman of the board.
-In 2004, Wales had been quoted as saying that he spent around US$500,000 on the establishment and operations of his Wiki projects. By the end of the foundation's February 2005 fund drive, the Wikimedia Foundation was being supported entirely by grants and donations.
-[[Image:Wales wikimania.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Jimmy Wales speaking at [[Wikimania]]]]
-More recently, perhaps inspired by the success of Wikipedia, Wales has founded the for-profit company [[Wikia]], which hosts various wikis, and manages the [[Wikicities]] project.
-Wales was appointed a fellow of the [[Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] at [[Harvard Law School]] in 2005. Later that year, on October 3rd, according to a press release [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051003006052&newsLang=en], Wales joined the [[Board of Directors]] of [[Socialtext]], a provider of [[wiki]] technology to businesses.
-To promote Wikimedia, Wales travels the world, both to conferences and Wikimedia functions (like "Wikimeets" and [[Wikimania]]). He has frequently been engaged as a speaker.
-==Published works==
-* Robert Brooks, Jon Corson and J. Donal Wales, "The Pricing of Index Options When the Underlying Assets All Follow a Lognormal Diffusion", in ''Advances in Futures and Options Research'', volume 7, 1994. Abstract available online from the [[Social Science Research Network]] [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5735].
-==References==
-*Pink, Daniel H., "The Book Stops Here", ''Wired'', [[March 3]] [[2005]] [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html?pg=3&topic=wiki&topic_set=]
-==External links==
-{{Spoken Wikipedia|Jimmy Wales.ogg|2005-04-06}}
-{{commons|category:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales}}
-{{wikiquote}}
-*[http://www.jimmywales.com/ Personal home page]
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales Wales's Wikipedia user page] <!-- please do not make this an internal link; see [[Wikipedia:Avoid self-references]] and this article's talk page for reasons -->
-===News media===
-{{wikinews|Interview with Jimbo Wales}}
-*[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-06-30-wiki_x.htm ''It's a Wiki world out there for the Web's groupmind''] [[USA Today]], 2003-7-1
-*[http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/09/26/focus4.html ''St. Petersburg tech brain creates 'wiki' world with online encyclopedia''], Tampa Bay Business Journal, 2005-9-23
-*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/ ''Wikipedia founder admits serious quality problems''], [[The Register]], 2005-10-18
-*[http://www.npost.com/interview.jsp?intID=INT00126 Interview with Jimmy Wales, WikiPedia Founder], 2005-11-1
-*[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6298340/site/newsweek/ ''It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki''], [[Newsweek]], 2005-11-1
-===Audio/Video===
-*[http://www.radioopensource.org/pilot-3-the-wikipedia/ Open Source - The Wikipedia] [[May 19]]th, [[2005]] - hosted by [[Christopher Lydon]]
-*[http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20050711_76 “The Intelligence of Wikipedia" Talk] Video of Jimmy Wales talk given at the Oxford Internet Institute - recorded [[11 July]] [[2005]].
-*[http://www.prodigem.com/torrents/details.php?id=296 Video of Jimmy Wales discussing Wikipedia] 40 minutes from a talk Jimmy held at Stanford on [[2 September]] [[2005]] available as an avi in torrent form and licensed under the Creative Commons
-*[http://www.archive.org/download/HowardRheingoldIFTFStanfordHumanitiesLabJimmyWales/wales.mov 200 MB] and [http://www.archive.org/download/IFTFJimmyWalesLecturesmallversion/walessmall.mov 70 MB] Quicktime movies of the [[2 September]] [[2005]] lecture at Stanford, licensed under Creative Commons, hosted by the Internet Archive
-*[http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail443.html IT Conversations interview with Jimbo] - recorded [[3 September]] [[2005]]
-*[http://12.170.145.161/podaudio/qa092505.mp3 CSPAN interview of Jimmy Wales] 58 minutes held at the Institute for International Economics on [[September 9]], [[2005]] available as mp3 podcast
-*[http://www.qanda.org/Program/index.asp?ProgramID=1042 "Q and A" interview] [[September 25]], [[2005]] by [[C-SPAN]]'s [[Brian Lamb]]
-*[http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/wales/ Speech] on Wednesday, [[October 5]], [[2005]]
-*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986453&ft=1&f=1019 Talk of the Nation - Wikipedia, Open Source and the Future of the Web], [[November 2]], [[2005]]
-*[http://www.nooneslistening.org/mm.php?sl=v3 Video of Jimmy Wales interview by Irene McGee of NoOne's Listening] 9 minutes, from Media Alliance event held in San Francisco on [[10 October]] [[2005]]
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