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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. Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Larry Sanger - Wikipedia

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    Around 1994, Sanger met Jimmy Wales after subscribing to Wales' mailing list titled Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy (MDOP). [17] Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Reed in 1991, a Master of Arts from Ohio State University in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. [ 19 ]

  6. 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 ...

  7. WikiTribune - Wikipedia

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    A screenshot of the site in January 2018. 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.

  8. Nupedia - Wikipedia

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    In October 1999, Jimmy Wales began thinking about an online encyclopedia built by volunteers [citation needed] and, in January 2000, hired Larry Sanger to oversee its development. [2] The project officially went online on 9 March 2000. [10] By November 2000, however, only two full-length articles had been published. [11]

  9. List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people - Wikipedia

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    Menahem Pressler, pianist who played in the Beaux Arts Trio; Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system; Sven-David Sandström, composer