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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an Internet entrepreneur and a wiki enthusiast.
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama. He worked as a professional futures and options trader in Chicago. He also admires the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand, and while in graduate school owned and moderated an Internet mailing list known as the "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy." In the mid-1990s Wales started Bomis, a search portal focusing on aspects of pop culture, which also sells original content, and Wikia, a wiki-style search engine.
With Larry Sanger, Wales founded Wikipedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia derived from the open source model. He and Sanger had previously worked on the now-defunct Nupedia encyclopedia project. Wales is currently the director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a Tampa-based non-profit organization that encompasses Wikipedia and its younger sister projects. As such, he is Wikipedia's designated agent and is humorously known as its "benevolent dictator". According to the Herald Sun, an Australian newspaper, as of mid-2003 Wales had spent over AU$400,000 (at the time about US$265,000) on Wikipedia and Nupedia; later, Time Magazine reported that Wales had spent around US$500,000 on the establishment and operations of his Wiki projects.
Wales lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with his wife Christine and his daughter Kira.
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