Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Founder on BBC Focus Magazine
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Jimmy Wales Wikipedia founder interviewed by BBC Focus magazine
For Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary, Louise Ridley from BBC Focus magazine spoke to founder Jimmy Wales about the future of Wikipedia and its relationship to scientific research…
Jimmy Wales — Wikipedia founder is our featured entrepreneur. He is an internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding Wikipedia and Wikia web- hosting company. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Auburn University, and went on to graduate with a master’s degree in finance from the University of Alabama. Wales worked at a futures and trading firm in Chicago, IIlinois before becoming an internet entrepreneur.
His first internet venture helped provide funding for Nupedia, the forerunner of Wikipedia, a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia. He has received numerous awards and appeared on the Time magazine 2006 list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World”. Jimmy Wales says that over the 10 years Wikipedia should experience more growth in the languages of the developing nations of the world. Today, less than 20 percent of Wikipedia content is in English.
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