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==Wikipedia biography==
==Wikipedia biography==
In late 2005, Wales edited his own biography page on Wikipedia. In this regard, [[Rogers Cadenhead]] drew attention to logs showing that Wales had <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=26702273&oldid=26658959 removed]</span> references to Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.<ref name="cadenhead"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=29849184&oldid=29772366|title=Wikipedia diff showing modification by Mr. Wales|accessdate=2006-10-15}}</ref> Sanger, who is widely acknowledged as Wikipedia's co-founder,<ref name="Larry_Sanger_Springs_Citizendium"/><ref name="sanger-NYTimes"/> commented that "having seen edits like this, it does seem that Jimmy is attempting to rewrite history. But this is a futile process because in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication, the truth will be out."<ref name="wirednews"/><ref name="cadenhead">{{cite web|url=http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2828/wikipedia-founder-looks-out-number-1|first=Rogers|last=Cadenhead|accessdate=2006-10-15|title=Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1}}</ref><ref name="times-online">{{cite web|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1948005,00.html|first=Rhys|last=Blakely|accessdate=2006-10-15|title=Wikipedia founder edits himself|publisher=[[The Times|Times Online]]}}</ref> Wales was also observed to have modified references to [[Bomis]] in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.<ref name="wirednews"/> An article in the [[July 31]] [[2006]] issue of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine expanded on this topic:
In late 2005, Wales edited his own biography page on Wikipedia. In this regard, [[Rogers Cadenhead]] drew attention to logs showing that Wales had <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=26702273&oldid=26658959 removed]</span> references to [[Larry Sanger]] as the co-founder of Wikipedia.<ref name="cadenhead"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=29849184&oldid=29772366|title=Wikipedia diff showing modification by Mr. Wales|accessdate=2006-10-15}}</ref> Sanger, who is widely acknowledged as Wikipedia's co-founder,<ref name="Larry_Sanger_Springs_Citizendium"/><ref name="sanger-NYTimes"/> commented that "having seen edits like this, it does seem that Jimmy is attempting to rewrite history. But this is a futile process because in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication, the truth will be out."<ref name="wirednews"/><ref name="cadenhead">{{cite web|url=http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2828/wikipedia-founder-looks-out-number-1|first=Rogers|last=Cadenhead|accessdate=2006-10-15|title=Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1}}</ref><ref name="times-online">{{cite web|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1948005,00.html|first=Rhys|last=Blakely|accessdate=2006-10-15|title=Wikipedia founder edits himself|publisher=[[The Times|Times Online]]}}</ref> Wales was also observed to have modified references to [[Bomis]] in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.<ref name="wirednews"/> An article in the [[July 31]] [[2006]] issue of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine expanded on this topic:


{{quote|"Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Wikipedia entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. 'Adult content' or 'glamour photography' are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes. (In January, Wales agreed to a compromise: '[[erotic photography]].')"<ref name="knowitall">{{cite news|first=|last=|title=Know It All|url=http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact|publisher=[[The New Yorker]]|date=[[2006-07-31]]|accessdate=2008-01-15}}</ref>}}
{{quote|"Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Wikipedia entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. 'Adult content' or 'glamour photography' are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes. (In January, Wales agreed to a compromise: '[[erotic photography]].')"<ref name="knowitall">{{cite news|first=|last=|title=Know It All|url=http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact|publisher=[[The New Yorker]]|date=[[2006-07-31]]|accessdate=2008-01-15}}</ref>}}

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Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales in 2005
Born
Jimmy Donal Wales

(1966-08-07) August 7, 1966 (age 58)
Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.
NationalityUnited States
Other namesJimbo
Occupation(s)President of Wikia, Inc.; Board member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation
SpouseChristine[1]
ChildrenKira[1]
Websiteblog.jimmywales.com

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur. From 1994 to 2000, he worked as a research director at Chicago Options Associates. During this time, he founded the webportal Bomis. Since 2000, he was involved in several wiki-related initiatives. He founded the free online encyclopedia Nupedia (2000) (of which Wikipedia was an offshoot), the charitable Wikimedia Foundation (2003), and the free web hosting service Wikia (2004).

Jimmy Wales is a self-described libertarian and Objectivist. Time listed him as one of the most influential thinkers in 2006.

Early life

Jimmy Donal Wales was born on August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama in the United States.[2][3][4]

Wales' father worked as a grocery store manager while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran a small private school, in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales received his early education. He and only four other children were placed in the same grade, so the school grouped together the first through fourth grade students and the fifth through eighth grade students.[5] After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School,[6] a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, Alabama. Wales has said that the school was expensive for his family, but that education was regarded as 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."[5]

He received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and started with the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama, where he left with a Master's.[5] After that, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the doctoral dissertation required to earn a Ph.D.[5]

Career

Chicago Options Associates and Bomis

From 1994 to 2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago.[5] By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives," according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine.[7] During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of the web portal Bomis, a website featuring user generated webrings that, according to The Atlantic Monthly, meant the site "found itself positioned as the Playboy of the Internet".[8] For a time the company sold erotic photographs[9] and Wales described the site as having had "a market similar to say Maxim magazine. So it‘s kind of a guy-oriented search engine".[5] Although Wales is no longer connected with the company his involvement with Bomis has been criticised with questions frequently asked about the nature of its content.[10][11] Bomis also provided the initial funding for the Nupedia project.[7]

Nupedia, Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia Foundation

Main article: History of Wikipedia
File:P1030255.jpg
Wales speaking at Wikimania 2007

In March 2000, Wales started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief.[5] Nupedia was characterized by an extensive peer-review process designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias.[12] After Sanger publicly proposed on January 10, 2001 the idea of using a wiki to create an encyclopedia, Wales installed wiki software on a server and authorized Sanger to pursue the project under his supervision. Sanger dubbed the project "Wikipedia" and, with Wales, laid down the founding principles, content and established an Internet-based community of contributors during that year. Wikipedia was initially intended to be a wiki-based site for collaboration on early encyclopedic content for submission to Nupedia, but Wikipedia's rapid growth quickly overshadowed Nupedia's development.[13] Sanger worked on and promoted both the Nupedia and Wikipedia projects until Bomis discontinued funding for his position in February 2002; Sanger resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and as "chief organizer" of Wikipedia on March 1.[14][15] Wales has said that he initially was so worried with the concept that he would wake up in the middle of the night, wanting to check the site for vandalism.[16] In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation,[17] a non-profit organization[18] based in St. Petersburg, Florida, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects. The Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees consists of seven directors as of May 2007.[19] In a 2004 interview with Slashdot, Wales explained his motivations about Wikipedia, "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."[20]

Wikia

Main article: Wikia

Wales would later co-found, with Angela Beesley, the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. in 2004.[13] Wikia is a wiki farm, in that it is a collection of different individual wikis on different subjects, all hosted on the same website.[21]

Another service offered by Wikia is an open source web search engine named Wikia Search with which Wales meant to challenge Google and introduce transparency and public dialogue about how it's created into the search engine's operations, adding "I trust Google reasonably well, but that's like saying you have a favorite politician. I trust this politician, but I still want the city council to meet publicly. I still want a certain transparency in how government is run, even if you trust the person who's in charge now."[22] According to Wales, "It is meant to take on Google by creating a search engine where all the editorial decisions are made by the general public and all the software is open."[23]

Another wiki service offered at Wikia is Academic Publishing Wiki.

Roles of Wikipedia creators

Main article: Origins of Wikipedia

Wales has publicly disagreed with Sanger's role in the founding of Wikipedia. Wales continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia,[24] which he bases on the specific fact that Sanger was his employee.[25] In 2006, Wales told The Boston Globe that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder;[24] however, Sanger was identified as a co-founder of Wikipedia at least as early as September 2001[26] and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.[27] In addition to developing Wikipedia in its early phase and guiding the project, Sanger is also responsible for the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a free encyclopedia. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."[28] In response to Wales' revisionism,[29] Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Wikipedia by referencing earlier versions of Wikipedia pages, citing Wikipedia press releases, and linking to early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.[30] In a discussion with Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, Wales said: "When you write this up please do not uncritically repeat Sanger's absurd claim to be the co-founder of Wikipedia." He added: "I am not bent out of shape about it. The facts are on my side, which is why I bother so little about it."[31] Wales' role in the Wikipedia community has been described as "benevolent dictator for life".[32]

Wikipedia biography

In late 2005, Wales edited his own biography page on Wikipedia. In this regard, Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that Wales had removed references to Larry Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.[33][34] Sanger, who is widely acknowledged as Wikipedia's co-founder,[31][26] commented that "having seen edits like this, it does seem that Jimmy is attempting to rewrite history. But this is a futile process because in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication, the truth will be out."[11][33][35] Wales was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.[11] An article in the July 31 2006 issue of The New Yorker magazine expanded on this topic:

"Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Wikipedia entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. 'Adult content' or 'glamour photography' are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes. (In January, Wales agreed to a compromise: 'erotic photography.')"[36]

In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content.[11] He apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Wikipedia. Wales said in the Wired interview, "People should not do it, including me. I wish I had not done it."[11]

Wales had previously edited his entries on Wikipedia and on the Wikimedia Foundation's website in 2004 to indicate his date of birth is August 7, 1966.[4][37] He also made a statement in 2006 in which he wrote in part: "My date of birth is not August 8, 1966."[38] The Encyclopædia Britannica, Current Biography, and Who’s Who in America support these statements.[2][39][40] According to a researcher’s note on the Britannica’s website in June 2007, Wales contacted Britannica claiming that the date of August 7, 1966 was incorrect but was unwilling to provide them with a documented alternative.[41] On July 27, 2007, when asked by Oregonian reporter Mike Rogoway when his birthday was Wales is reported to have mysteriously stated, "Nobody knows."[2] Moreover, on his blog Rogoway claims that a Florida public records search shows that Wales’ drivers license lists his date of birth as August 8, 1966.[2] In August 2007, Wales expanded on this in his Wikipedia talk page by stating, in part: "In any event, the quotes in the Oregonian are correct."[3]

Personal philosophy

Wales is a self-avowed "Objectivist to the core", to the extent of having named his daughter Kira after the heroine in Ayn Rand's We the Living,[22] although he says, "I think I do a better job — than a lot of people who self-identify as Objectivists — of not pushing my point of view on other people."[42] When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on C-SPAN's Q&A about Rand, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a libertarian, qualifying his remark by referring to the Libertarian Party as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles.[5] From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy."[43] An interview with Wales served as the cover feature of the June 2007 issue of the libertarian magazine Reason.

Wales is credited with operating his business frugally as well as living frugally, as noted by his choice of driving a Hyundai instead of a Ferrari, which he previously drove. He attempts to use his mobile phone in Europe sparingly because of the high rates charged.[13]

On December 6, 2007, Wales, while at the Online Information conference in London's Olympia, stated that "it's a bad educator that bans their students from reading Wikipedia". Wales reasoned that new editing and checking procedures make Wikipedia more reliable.[44]

Honors and awards

Published work

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  2. ^ a b c d Rogoway, M. July 27, 2007 "Wikipedia & its founder disagree on his birth date,". Silicon Forest, (The Oregonian), 2007-07-27. Retrieved on 2007-08-08. Note: In his blog, Wales endorses this news article. Cite error: The named reference "dob" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Wales, J. "More birthdate nonsense". User talk:Jimbo Wales, 2007-08-07. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
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  51. ^ Moses, Asher (2007-04-26). "Chaser's war on Wikipedia founder". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 2007-04-29. Given Wales's widely publicised goal of giving "every single person on the planet free access to the sum of all human knowledge", Hansen evidently thought Wales would be a prime candidate for The Chaser's "Mr Ten Questions" segment. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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