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Lawrence Mark Sanger (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər / ⓘ; [1] born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name, and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies.
Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader.He is a co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).
There are two co-founders of Wikipedia: ... Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur; See also. History of Wikipedia § Founding of Wikipedia
In 2005, Wales described himself simply as the founder of Wikipedia; [234] however, according to Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, "Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder." [229] Sanger and Wales were referred to as co-founders in various press releases, interviews, and news reports from 2001 [238] and 2002. [239]
Seigenthaler, the founding editorial director of USA Today and founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, called Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and asked whether he had any way of knowing who contributed the misinformation. Wales said he did not, although the perpetrator was eventually traced.
Jimmy Wales – historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation, declaring himself the sole founder. Andrew Lih – veteran Wikipedia contributor, [ 48 ] and in 2009 published the book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia .
Since 2008, Jimmy Wales is (additionally to the Chairman Emeritus) granted the "Founder's seat" on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the ultimate corporate authority of the Wikimedia Foundation. [7] [8] Although Wales founded Wikipedia together with Larry Sanger, there is only one Founder's seat on the board. [9]
Bomis, Inc. (/ ˈ b ɒ m ɪ s /, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; [14] rhyming with "promise") [15] was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. [9] It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis.