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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born early August 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama[1][2]) is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his role in founding Wikipedia[3][4][5] and other wiki-related projects, including the charitable Wikimedia Foundation and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.[6]
In a 2007 interview Wales said that in 1999 he had a student design software for a top-down design multilingual encyclopedia website; however, it was too slow to be usable.[11]
In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief.[8]
Wales was the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the May 8 2006 special edition of Time ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing 100 influential people.[21]
Wales received an honorary degree from Knox College on June 3 2006. The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded him a Pioneer Award on May 3, 2006.[22]
Wales appeared on PBS' Charlie Rose on October 6 2006[23] and was nominated for Beard of the Year 2006.[24]
On November 4, 2006, Wales appeared in the "Not My Job" segment of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a humorous news-quiz show on National Public Radio. The topic was "It must be True, I read it on Wikipedia". The three questions posed, drawn from obscure content on Wikipedia, were answered incorrectly.[25]
Forbes magazine ranked him twelfth in its first annual "The Web Celebs 25."[26]
Wales was featured in the April 2 2007 issue of Time magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." He answered ten questions culled from Time's readership. His was the second interview to consist of reader questions (the first had been Chris Rock). Previously the questions had been composed by a Time staff member. In his replies, he acknowledged the limitations of Wikipedia, while defending its usefulness.[27]
On April 10, 2007 the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries (in South Carolina and hosted by Converse College) had Jimmy Wales as a special guest speaker.[28] A humorous event occurred when an introductory speaker (Dr. Mark Monson) misspoke while presenting an award and said “gynecological” rather than “genealogical.” Later, during a question-and-answer period, Wales was asked by a school-aged child what Wales’s favorite article was that a third grader could read. Wales (after some consideration) said that Inherently funny word would probably be the case.[28] He later cautioned that a parent may want to check on this before sending their child to the site. However, perhaps a new word will be added to this article because the questioner after a few attempts at pronunciation asked if “genie-whatever that was” was one of those words, and if it was the study of genies. Wales said that this question should be answered by his parents and continued with the forum.[28]
On April 26 2007 Wales had a run-in with The Chaser, an Australian satire group. He was used in the first occurrence of the "Mr. Ten Questions" segment in Season 2 of The Chaser's War on Everything, in which a "reporter" asks the victim ten questions of variable relevance without pausing for a response until all questions are asked. Wales managed to score a 4 out of 10, however some of the answers did not seem to match the questions being asked.[29]
In late 2005, Wales was criticized for editing his own biography page on Wikipedia. In particular, Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that Wales had references to Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.[10][31] Wikipedia co-founder[5][5] Larry Sanger commented that "Having seen edits like this, it does seem that Jimmy is attempting to rewrite history. But this is a futile process because in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication, the truth will be out."[10][32][30] Wales was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.[10] An article in the July 31 2006 issue of The New Yorker magazine[34] expanded on this topic:
In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content.[10] He apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Wikipedia. Wales said in the Wired interview, "People should not do it, including me. I wish I had not done it."[10]
Wales continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia,[10] which he bases on the specific fact that Sanger was his employee.[35] In 2006, Wales told The Boston Globe that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder;[34] however, Sanger was identified as a co-founder of Wikipedia at least as early as September 2001[31] and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.[38] In addition to developing Wikipedia in its early phase and guiding the project, Sanger is also responsible for the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a free encyclopedia. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."[39] In response to Wales' revisionism,[3] Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Wikipedia by referencing earlier versions of Wikipedia pages, citing Wikipedia press releases, and linking to early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.[40] In a discussion with Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, Wales said: "When you write this up please do not uncritically repeat Sanger's absurd claim to be the co-founder of Wikipedia." He added: "I am not bent out of shape about it. The facts are on my side, which is why I bother so little about it."[5]
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Personal life
Wales' father worked as a grocery store manager while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran a small private school, in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales received his education. In his adult life, Wales enjoys sailing and is an outdoor enthusiast.[7]Education
During his time in the one-room schoolhouse for most of the time there were four children in his grade so the school grouped the first through fourth grade students together and the fifth through eighth grade students together.[8] After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, Alabama. Wales has said that the school was expensive for his family, but that education was regarded as important. "Education was always a passion in my household… you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life."[8] He received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and started with the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama, where he left with a Master's in finance.[8] After that, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the doctoral dissertation required to earn a Ph.D.[8]Career
From 1994–2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trader in Chicago.[8] By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives", according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine.[9] During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of a dot-com erotic search engine, Bomis, that later helped in the initial funding for Wikipedia. The nature of Bomis is disputed—Wales describes Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine" that often sold erotic materials similar in nature to "Maxim" magazine's scantily clad women. Wales disputes the statement that Bomis dealt in "soft-core pornography," preferring the term "adult content."[10]In a 2007 interview Wales said that in 1999 he had a student design software for a top-down design multilingual encyclopedia website; however, it was too slow to be usable.[11]
In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief.[8]
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Media appearances and honors
Wales was appointed a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2005. On October 3 2005, according to a press release,[19] Wales joined the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses. In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Creative Commons.[20]Wales was the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the May 8 2006 special edition of Time ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing 100 influential people.[21]
Wales received an honorary degree from Knox College on June 3 2006. The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded him a Pioneer Award on May 3, 2006.[22]
Wales appeared on PBS' Charlie Rose on October 6 2006[23] and was nominated for Beard of the Year 2006.[24]
On November 4, 2006, Wales appeared in the "Not My Job" segment of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a humorous news-quiz show on National Public Radio. The topic was "It must be True, I read it on Wikipedia". The three questions posed, drawn from obscure content on Wikipedia, were answered incorrectly.[25]
Forbes magazine ranked him twelfth in its first annual "The Web Celebs 25."[26]
Wales was featured in the April 2 2007 issue of Time magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." He answered ten questions culled from Time's readership. His was the second interview to consist of reader questions (the first had been Chris Rock). Previously the questions had been composed by a Time staff member. In his replies, he acknowledged the limitations of Wikipedia, while defending its usefulness.[27]
On April 10, 2007 the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries (in South Carolina and hosted by Converse College) had Jimmy Wales as a special guest speaker.[28] A humorous event occurred when an introductory speaker (Dr. Mark Monson) misspoke while presenting an award and said “gynecological” rather than “genealogical.” Later, during a question-and-answer period, Wales was asked by a school-aged child what Wales’s favorite article was that a third grader could read. Wales (after some consideration) said that Inherently funny word would probably be the case.[28] He later cautioned that a parent may want to check on this before sending their child to the site. However, perhaps a new word will be added to this article because the questioner after a few attempts at pronunciation asked if “genie-whatever that was” was one of those words, and if it was the study of genies. Wales said that this question should be answered by his parents and continued with the forum.[28]
On April 26 2007 Wales had a run-in with The Chaser, an Australian satire group. He was used in the first occurrence of the "Mr. Ten Questions" segment in Season 2 of The Chaser's War on Everything, in which a "reporter" asks the victim ten questions of variable relevance without pausing for a response until all questions are asked. Wales managed to score a 4 out of 10, however some of the answers did not seem to match the questions being asked.[29]
Controversy
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In late 2005, Wales was criticized for editing his own biography page on Wikipedia. In particular, Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that Wales had references to Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.[10][31] Wikipedia co-founder[5][5] Larry Sanger commented that "Having seen edits like this, it does seem that Jimmy is attempting to rewrite history. But this is a futile process because in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication, the truth will be out."[10][32][30] Wales was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.[10] An article in the July 31 2006 issue of The New Yorker magazine[34] expanded on this topic:
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In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content.[10] He apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Wikipedia. Wales said in the Wired interview, "People should not do it, including me. I wish I had not done it."[10]
Wales continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia,[10] which he bases on the specific fact that Sanger was his employee.[35] In 2006, Wales told The Boston Globe that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder;[34] however, Sanger was identified as a co-founder of Wikipedia at least as early as September 2001[31] and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.[38] In addition to developing Wikipedia in its early phase and guiding the project, Sanger is also responsible for the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a free encyclopedia. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."[39] In response to Wales' revisionism,[3] Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Wikipedia by referencing earlier versions of Wikipedia pages, citing Wikipedia press releases, and linking to early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.[40] In a discussion with Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, Wales said: "When you write this up please do not uncritically repeat Sanger's absurd claim to be the co-founder of Wikipedia." He added: "I am not bent out of shape about it. The facts are on my side, which is why I bother so little about it."[5]
Birthdate
Wales had previously edited his entries on Wikipedia and on the Wikimedia Foundation's website in 2004 to indicate his date of birth is August 7, 1966.[41][42] He also made a statement in 2006 in which he wrote in part: "My date of birth is not August 8, 1966."[43] The Encyclopædia Britannica, Current Biography, and Who’s Who in America support this statement.[1][45][46] However, according to a researcher’s note on the Britannica’s website in June 2007, Wales contacted Britannica claiming that the date of August 7, 1966 was incorrect but was unwilling to provide them with a documented alternative.[47] On July 27, 2007, when asked by Oregonian reporter Mike Rogoway when his birthday was Wales is reported to have mysteriously stated, "Nobody knows."[1] Moreover, on his blog Rogoway claims that a Florida public records search shows that Wales’ drivers license lists his date of birth as August 8, 1966.[1] In August 2007, Wales expanded on this in his Wikipedia talk page by stating, in part: "In any event, the quotes in the Oregonian are correct."[2]Personal philosophy
Wales is a self-avowed "Objectivist to the core", to the extent of having named his daughter Kira after the heroine in Ayn Rand's We the Living,[7] although he says, "I think I do a better job — than a lot of people who self-identify as Objectivists — of not pushing my point of view on other people."[48] When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on C-SPAN's Q&A about Rand, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a libertarian, qualifying his remark by referring to the Libertarian Party as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles.[8] From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy."[49] An interview with Wales served as the cover feature of the June 2007 issue of the libertarian magazine Reason.Published work
- Robert Brooks, Jon Corson, and J. Donal Wales. "The Pricing of Index Options When the Underlying Assets All Follow a Lognormal Diffusion", in Advances in Futures and Options Research, volume 7, 1994. See also log-normal distribution.
References
1. ^ Rogoway, M. (July 27, 2007) Silicon Forest (The Oregonian) accessed August 8, 2007
2. ^ Wales, J. (August 8, 2007) User talk:Jimbo Wales accessed August 8, 2007
3. ^ Mitchell, Dan. "Insider Editing at Wikipedia", New York Times, 2005-12-24. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
4. ^ Wikipedia press release January 15, 2002 "The founders of Wikipedia are Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger."
5. ^ Bergstein, Brian. "Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia", ABC News, Associated Press, 2007-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-03-26. “The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim does not seem particularly controversial—Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, isn't happy about it. —Brian Bergstein.
6. ^ McNichol, Tom. "Wikipedia founder hunts for gold", Business 2.0, CNN, 2007-03-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.CNN&rft.date=2007-03-01">
7. ^ "Why Is This Man Smiling?". Fast Company (March 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-02."Wales revealed that Wikia, his for-profit Silicon Valley startup, was working on Search Wikia, which he touted as "the search engine that changes everything … Just as Wikipedia revolutionized how we think about knowledge and the encyclopedia, we have a chance now to revolutionize how we think about search."
8. ^ Lamb, Brian (2005-09-25). Q&A: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder. C-SPAN. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.
9. ^ Pink, Daniel H. (2005-03-13). . Wired. Retrieved on 2006-10-09.
10. ^ Hansen, Evan. Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. Wired News. Wired. Retrieved on 2006-02-14.
11. ^ In Search of an Online Utopia 2007-02-01.
12. ^ 2002-03-01. Retrieved on 2006-10-19.
13. ^ Wikipedia's co-founder eyes a Digital Universe 2006-01-06.
14. ^ .
15. ^ BBC.co.uk. Technology. Open media to connect communities. 20 November 2005
16. ^ Board of Trustees.
17. ^ Wales, Jimmy (2004-07-28). "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Replies". Slashdot. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
18. ^ Main Page. 12 May 2007.
19. ^ "", Socialtext, 2005-10-03.Socialtext&rft.date=2005-10-03">
20. ^ "Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members", Creative Commons, 2006-03-30.
21. ^ Anderson, Chris. "Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Wikipedia", Time, 2006-05-08. Retrieved on 2006-04-30.
22. ^ EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards. Kansas City infoZine News (2006-04-28). Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
23. ^ Video of Jimmy Wales on Charlie Rose October 4, 2006
24. ^ Beard of the Year. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
25. ^ "This Week's Show 4 November 2006" (2006-11-04).
26. ^ Ewalt, David M. (2007-01-23). The Web Celeb 25. Retrieved on 2007-04-23.
27. ^ "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales", Time Magazine, March 21, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-24. “The key is to look at the quality of articles. The quality of Wikipedia today compared with three years ago is a dramatic improvement. But people do need to be aware of how it is created and edited so they can treat it with the appropriate caution. —Jimmy Wales.
28. ^ Wales, Jimmy. Speech Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina (April 10, 2007).
29. ^ Moses, Asher. "", Brisbanetimes.com.au, April 26, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-29. “Given Wales's widely publicised goal of giving "every single person on the planet free access to the sum of all human knowledge", Hansen evidently thought Wales would be a prime candidate for The Chaser's "Mr Ten Questions" segment.Brisbanetimes.com.au&rft.date=April%2026,%202007">
30. ^ Hansen, Evan. Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. Wired News. Wired. Retrieved on 2006-02-14.
31. ^ . Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
32. ^ Rhys Blakely. Wikipedia founder edits himself. Times Online. Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
33. ^ Rogers Cadenhead. . Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
34. ^ . Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
35. ^ Jonathan Sidener. "Everyone's Encyclopedia", San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
36. ^ Knott, Janet. "", The Boston Globe, 2006-02-12. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
37. ^ Peter Meyers. "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You", New York Times, 2001-09-20. Retrieved on 2006-10-15. "I can start an article that will consist of one paragraph, and then a real expert will come along and add three paragraphs and clean up my one paragraph," said Larry Sanger of Las Vegas, who founded Wikipedia with Mr. Wales.
38. ^ Sanger, Larry. . Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
39. ^ Sanger, Larry. "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir", Slashdot, 2005-04-18. Retrieved on 2005-04-18.Slashdot&rft.date=2005-04-18">
40. ^ Larry Sanger. My role in Wikipedia (links). larrysanger.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-21.
41. ^ Wales, Jimbo. "", Wikipedia, September 18, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
42. ^ Wales, Jimbo. "", Wikimedia Foundation, September 18, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
43. ^ "", Wikipedia, July 11, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
44. ^ Britannica Book of the Year, 2007 Jimmy Wales. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
45. ^ Current Biography Yearbook 2006 - Publisher: H. W. Wilson (February 28, 2007) ISBN 978-0824210748.
46. ^ Who's Who In America: Diamond Edition - Publisher: Marquis Who's Who; 60th edition (October 12, 2005) ISBN 978-0837969909.
47. ^ "Jimmy Wales's date of birth", Researcher's Note, Encyclopædia Britannica, September 18, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
48. ^
49. ^ Wales, Jimmy (1992-09-23). "[news://Bv1u8x.Bnv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu Re: Objectivism of Ayn Rand]". [news://talk.philosophy.misc talk.philosophy.misc]. (Google Groups).
2. ^ Wales, J. (August 8, 2007) User talk:Jimbo Wales accessed August 8, 2007
3. ^ Mitchell, Dan. "Insider Editing at Wikipedia", New York Times, 2005-12-24. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
4. ^ Wikipedia press release January 15, 2002 "The founders of Wikipedia are Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger."
5. ^ Bergstein, Brian. "Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia", ABC News, Associated Press, 2007-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-03-26. “The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim does not seem particularly controversial—Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, isn't happy about it. —Brian Bergstein.
6. ^ McNichol, Tom. "Wikipedia founder hunts for gold", Business 2.0, CNN, 2007-03-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.CNN&rft.date=2007-03-01">
7. ^ "Why Is This Man Smiling?". Fast Company (March 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-02."Wales revealed that Wikia, his for-profit Silicon Valley startup, was working on Search Wikia, which he touted as "the search engine that changes everything … Just as Wikipedia revolutionized how we think about knowledge and the encyclopedia, we have a chance now to revolutionize how we think about search."
8. ^ Lamb, Brian (2005-09-25). Q&A: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder. C-SPAN. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.
9. ^ Pink, Daniel H. (2005-03-13). . Wired. Retrieved on 2006-10-09.
10. ^ Hansen, Evan. Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. Wired News. Wired. Retrieved on 2006-02-14.
11. ^ In Search of an Online Utopia 2007-02-01.
12. ^ 2002-03-01. Retrieved on 2006-10-19.
13. ^ Wikipedia's co-founder eyes a Digital Universe 2006-01-06.
14. ^ .
15. ^ BBC.co.uk. Technology. Open media to connect communities. 20 November 2005
16. ^ Board of Trustees.
17. ^ Wales, Jimmy (2004-07-28). "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Replies". Slashdot. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
18. ^ Main Page. 12 May 2007.
19. ^ "", Socialtext, 2005-10-03.Socialtext&rft.date=2005-10-03">
20. ^ "Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members", Creative Commons, 2006-03-30.
21. ^ Anderson, Chris. "Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Wikipedia", Time, 2006-05-08. Retrieved on 2006-04-30.
22. ^ EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards. Kansas City infoZine News (2006-04-28). Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
23. ^ Video of Jimmy Wales on Charlie Rose October 4, 2006
24. ^ Beard of the Year. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
25. ^ "This Week's Show 4 November 2006" (2006-11-04).
26. ^ Ewalt, David M. (2007-01-23). The Web Celeb 25. Retrieved on 2007-04-23.
27. ^ "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales", Time Magazine, March 21, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-24. “The key is to look at the quality of articles. The quality of Wikipedia today compared with three years ago is a dramatic improvement. But people do need to be aware of how it is created and edited so they can treat it with the appropriate caution. —Jimmy Wales.
28. ^ Wales, Jimmy. Speech Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina (April 10, 2007).
29. ^ Moses, Asher. "", Brisbanetimes.com.au, April 26, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-29. “Given Wales's widely publicised goal of giving "every single person on the planet free access to the sum of all human knowledge", Hansen evidently thought Wales would be a prime candidate for The Chaser's "Mr Ten Questions" segment.Brisbanetimes.com.au&rft.date=April%2026,%202007">
30. ^ Hansen, Evan. Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. Wired News. Wired. Retrieved on 2006-02-14.
31. ^ . Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
32. ^ Rhys Blakely. Wikipedia founder edits himself. Times Online. Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
33. ^ Rogers Cadenhead. . Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
34. ^ . Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
35. ^ Jonathan Sidener. "Everyone's Encyclopedia", San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved on 2006-10-15.
36. ^ Knott, Janet. "", The Boston Globe, 2006-02-12. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
37. ^ Peter Meyers. "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You", New York Times, 2001-09-20. Retrieved on 2006-10-15. "I can start an article that will consist of one paragraph, and then a real expert will come along and add three paragraphs and clean up my one paragraph," said Larry Sanger of Las Vegas, who founded Wikipedia with Mr. Wales.
38. ^ Sanger, Larry. . Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
39. ^ Sanger, Larry. "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir", Slashdot, 2005-04-18. Retrieved on 2005-04-18.Slashdot&rft.date=2005-04-18">
40. ^ Larry Sanger. My role in Wikipedia (links). larrysanger.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-21.
41. ^ Wales, Jimbo. "", Wikipedia, September 18, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
42. ^ Wales, Jimbo. "", Wikimedia Foundation, September 18, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
43. ^ "", Wikipedia, July 11, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
44. ^ Britannica Book of the Year, 2007 Jimmy Wales. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
45. ^ Current Biography Yearbook 2006 - Publisher: H. W. Wilson (February 28, 2007) ISBN 978-0824210748.
46. ^ Who's Who In America: Diamond Edition - Publisher: Marquis Who's Who; 60th edition (October 12, 2005) ISBN 978-0837969909.
47. ^ "Jimmy Wales's date of birth", Researcher's Note, Encyclopædia Britannica, September 18, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
48. ^
49. ^ Wales, Jimmy (1992-09-23). "[news://Bv1u8x.Bnv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu Re: Objectivism of Ayn Rand]". [news://talk.philosophy.misc talk.philosophy.misc]. (Google Groups).
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grocery store is a store established primarily for the retailing of food. You buy food at a grocery store. A grocer, the owner of a grocery store, stocks different kinds of foods from assorted places and cultures, and sells them to customers.
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- For the film of this title, see Private School (film).
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One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom.
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Randolph School is an American independent private kindergarten-through-12th-grade college preparatory school chartered in 1959 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. It started in an antebellum home on Randolph Street with just a few elementary classes.
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A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education.
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Huntsville, Alabama
Nickname: "Rocket City"
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Alabama
Counties Madison, Limestone
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Nickname: "Rocket City"
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Alabama
Counties Madison, Limestone
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State of Alabama
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Nickname(s): Yellowhammer State, Heart of Dixie
Motto(s): Audemus jura nostra defendere
Official language(s) English
Spoken language(s) English 96.
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Flag of Alabama Seal
Nickname(s): Yellowhammer State, Heart of Dixie
Motto(s): Audemus jura nostra defendere
Official language(s) English
Spoken language(s) English 96.
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For other degrees, see .
A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years.
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Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects.
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Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama, USA. With more than 24,100 students and 1,200 faculty, it is the largest university in the state,[7] and according to U.S.
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Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D.
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The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as 'Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System.
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master's degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded after the completion of a program of one to four years in duration.
In the recently standardized European system of higher education diplomas, it corresponds to a two years postgraduate program undertaken after at
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In the recently standardized European system of higher education diplomas, it corresponds to a two years postgraduate program undertaken after at
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Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. It is also known as "Indiana University Bloomington" or simply IU, and is located in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.
IU has 110 programs ranked in the nation's top 20.
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IU has 110 programs ranked in the nation's top 20.
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This article is about the thesis in academia. For other senses of this word, see thesis (disambiguation).
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In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a certain underlying instrument at a certain date in the future, at a specified price. The future date is called the delivery date or final settlement date.
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Options are financial instruments that convey the right, but not the obligation, to engage in a future transaction on some underlying security. For example, buying a call option provides the right to buy a specified quantity of a security at a set strike price at some time on or
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A stock trader or a stock investor is an individual or firm who buys and sells stocks or bonds (and possibly other financial assets) in the financial markets.
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City of Chicago
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Nickname: "The Windy City", "The Second City", "ChiTown", "Hog Butcher for the World", "City of the Big Shoulders", "The City That Works"
Motto: "Urbs in Horto
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Flag
Seal
Nickname: "The Windy City", "The Second City", "ChiTown", "Hog Butcher for the World", "City of the Big Shoulders", "The City That Works"
Motto: "Urbs in Horto
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Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. Owned by Condé Nast Publications, it reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics.
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A Dot-com company, or simply a dot-com, is a company which does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that uses the popular top-level domain, ".com" (in turn derived from the word "commercial").
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Bomis, Inc.
Private
Founded 1996
Headquarters St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Key people Jimmy Wales
Tim Shell
Michael Davis
Industry Internet
Products Internet portal
Advertising space
Revenue N/A
Employees 10
Website www.
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Private
Founded 1996
Headquarters St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Key people Jimmy Wales
Tim Shell
Michael Davis
Industry Internet
Products Internet portal
Advertising space
Revenue N/A
Employees 10
Website www.
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Maxim in 2007.]] Mary Elizabeth Winstead on the cover of Maxim in 2007.
Editor-in-chief Jim Kaminsky (September, 2007 - present)
Categories Men's
Frequency Monthly
Publisher Dennis Publishing, Inc.
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Editor-in-chief Jim Kaminsky (September, 2007 - present)
Categories Men's
Frequency Monthly
Publisher Dennis Publishing, Inc.
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