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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 ...
Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur; See also. History of Wikipedia § Founding of Wikipedia This page was last edited on 21 May 2023, at ...
The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. [1] [10] Fandom was acquired in 2018 by TPG Inc. and Jon Miller through Integrated Media Co. [11] Fandom uses MediaWiki, the same open-source wiki software used by Wikipedia.
It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. [16] [17] [18] By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related resources transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation. [1] [19] The company initially tried a number of ideas for content, including being a directory of information about Chicago. [20]
In June 2003, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) was founded as "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, United States." [6] The foundation's governance is a board of trustees, that in 2003 initially comprised of Jimmy Wales as Chair, Michael Davis , and Tim Shell .
It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia operated from October 1999 [1] [2] until September 2003. It is best known today as the predecessor of Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia in 2001 as a feeder project to supplement Nupedia.The project was originally funded by Bomis, Wales's for-profit business, and edited by a rapidly growing community of volunteer editors.
WikiTribune was founded by Jimmy Wales and Orit Kopel. [7] Initial crowdfunding for the site was completed in May 2017, raising over £137,000, as well as around £400,000 from donors such as Google, Craig Newmark and the News Integrity Initiative.