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  2. Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia

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    Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as August 8. [4] His father, Jimmy Sr., [5] was a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris Ann (née Dudley), and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning, [6] [7] a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales and his three siblings ...

  3. Ideological bias on Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said: The Wikipedia community is very diverse, from liberal to conservative to libertarian and beyond. If averages mattered, and due to the nature of the wiki software (no voting) they almost certainly don't, I would say that the Wikipedia community is slightly more liberal than the U.S. population on ...

  4. Criticism of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said: "The Wikipedia community is very diverse, from liberal to conservative to libertarian and beyond. If averages mattered, and due to the nature of the wiki software (no voting) they almost certainly don't, I would say that the Wikipedia community is slightly more liberal than the U.S. population on ...

  5. Wikipedia co-founder launches Wikitribune to fight fake news

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    Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales hopes to tackle fake news with a journalism outfit of his own. Wikitribune will be free to access and use crowdfunding to hire experienced reporters. They'll work ...

  6. Wikipedia : Role of Jimmy Wales

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    Jimmy Wales in 2019. Jimmy Wales holds a special role in the English Wikipedia community, due to the central and vital stake he had in its founding. This has in the past included a number of roles in the community's governance, including originally having sole authority to ban editors from the site.

  7. Reliability of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stated in 2006: "The Wikipedia community is very diverse, from liberal to conservative to libertarian and beyond. If averages mattered, and due to the nature of the wiki software (no voting) they almost certainly don't, I would say that the Wikipedia community is slightly more liberal than the U.S. population on ...

  8. Elon Musk’s X is ‘not really a great source of truth’, says ...

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    Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales took a swing at Elon Musk's tech empire, targeting the billionaire's social network X and dismissing his new artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.. Speaking on the ...

  9. Conservapedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia's co-creator Jimmy Wales said about Conservapedia that "free culture knows no bounds" and "the reuse of our work to build variants [is] directly in line with our mission". [84] Wales denied Schlafly's claims of liberal bias in Wikipedia. [15] In 2022, Slate noted that Conservapedia "has long floundered with minimal readership." [85]