Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Walesis an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit Wikia web hosting company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 August 1966
CountryUnited States of America
simple
I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
i-can
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
I am really accessible.
speech speak free-speech
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
people east goes-on
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
hands information-knowledge people
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
ideas people world
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
sports zero college
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
fun interesting get-up
I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
bigs tendencies approach
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
fun interesting people
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
world single-person persons
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
numbers people culture
Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
people kind site
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.