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===Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales=== |
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[[Image:WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg|thumb|200px|Jimmy Wales addressing a "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/2004-06-05 Wikimeet]" in [[London]].]] |
[[:en:Image:WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg|thumb|200px|Jimmy Wales addressing a "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/2004-06-05 Wikimeet]" in [[:en:London]].]] |
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'''Jimmy "Jimbo" Donal Wales''' (born |
'''Jimmy "Jimbo" Donal Wales''' (born August 7, 1966), is an [[:en:Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur]] and a [[:en:wiki]] enthusiast. |
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Wales was born in [[Huntsville, Alabama|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]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[Open Directory Project]], and [[Wikia]], a wiki-style [[search engine]]. |
Wales was born in [[Huntsville, Alabama|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]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[Open Directory Project]], and [[Wikia]], a wiki-style [[search engine]]. |
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