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== Trustees ==
===Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales===
[[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]].]]
'''Jimmy "Jimbo" Donal Wales''' (born [[August 7]], [[1966]]), is an [[Internet]] [[entrepreneur]] and a [[wiki]] enthusiast.
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]].
In 1999, Wales had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning 2 programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed primarily due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After more than 2 years of struggle with the Nupedia concept, Wikipedia was opened to become an instant success.
Wales is currently the president of the [[Wikimedia]] Foundation, a [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]-based [[non-profit organization]] that encompasses Wikipedia and its younger sister projects. According to the ''[[Herald Sun]]'', an [[Australia]]n [[newspaper]], Wales has spent over AU$400,000 on Wikipedia and Nupedia; later, ''[[Time Magazine]]'' reported that Wales spent around US$500,000 on his Wiki projects.
Wales is married, and lives in [[St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]], [[Florida]] with his wife Christine and his daughter Kira.
===Michael Davis===
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