Jimbo Wales
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Jimmy Wales in July 2010. | |
| Birth name | Jimmy Donal Wales |
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| Nickname (s) | Jimbo |
| Birth | 7 August 1966 (1966-08-07) (age 44) Huntsville , Alabama |
| Country of residence |  United States |
| Occupation (s) | Entrepreneur |
| Activity (s) Home (s) | President Wikia President emeritus of the Foundation |
| Training | Auburn University University of Alabama Indiana University Bloomington |
| Child (ren) | Ada |
Jimmy Wales, its full name Jimmy Donal Wales, nicknamed Jimbo Wales, born on 7 August 1966 in Huntsville , Alabama , is a businessman American. He is the founder of Internet Service Provider / Web portal American Bomis and co-founder of the encyclopedia free , wiki and free the web and other wiki-based projects, such as and Wikia.
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Childhood
Jimmy Wales was born in 1966 in Huntsville , in Alabama , yet according to his driver's license, his birthday is August 8 .
His father worked as director of trade in groceries while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, running a small private school with one room, in which Jimmy received his education.
Classes are composed of a small number of students (four students to one of Jimmy Wales most of the time), children gathered in two groups according to their level:
- the first group: 1 to 4 th grade (6 to 10 years);
- the second group: from 5 th to 8 th grade (10 to 14 years).
Studies
After the 8th year, Jimmy Wales became a student of the Randolph School , a school located in Alabama, Huntsville, which prepares for entry to university. The latter is one of the first schools to promote the use of new technologies, including the computer awareness among students through engine rooms. Wales says that the school was expensive for his family but that this training was considered important: "At home, education has always been a passion ... you see, this very traditional approach to knowledge and learning as a basis for a good life. "
Subsequently, he obtained a BA (Anglo-Saxon) of finance at the University of Auburn , and then starts the program of doctoral ( PhD ) in Finance at the University of Alabama , he left level of mastery (master). Then, he continues to follow the course of the Ph.D. at Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his studies, but does not write the thesis required for graduation.
Career
From 1994 to 2000, Wales worked as research director at Chicago Options Associates. He made his fortune by speculating on the fluctuation of interest rates and exchange . According to Daniel Pink, the magazine Wired , thanks to speculation about interest rates and fluctuations in foreign currencies, he said he earned enough money to make couples live for the rest of his life. Bomis.com and Nupedia During this period ( 1996 ), one of the projects undertaken by Jimmy Wales is the creation of Bomis , a search engine erotic. Wales described Bomis as "a search engine rather intended to guys" selling pictures erotic most often similar to those of Maximal magazine with some very scantily clad women. In a 2007 interview, he stated that in 1999 he did the study then performs a software to produce a multilingual online encyclopedia, however, too slow to be used and the Foundation After Larry Sanger proposes publicly 10 January 2001 the idea of using a wiki to create an encyclopedia, Wales installed a wiki engine on a server provided by Bomis and authorizes Sanger to pursue the project under his supervision , He also created, with Angela Beesley , the company Wikia , Inc.. In 2005, Wales has appointed a member of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of Harvard Law School. October 3, according to a press release, Wales joins the leadership of Socialtext , a wiki company offering solutions for the professional market 2006 In 2006 , he joined the leadership of Creative Commons , a nonprofit association. After Devouard in 2006, the U.S. Michael Snow succeeded him on 17 July 2008 as president of the Foundation , of which he is now honorary president. Jimmy Wales lives in St. Petersburg in Florida. It is separated from his wife Christine. They have a daughter, Kira. Jimbo Wales is a passionate follower of objectivism developed by the philosopher U.S. Ayn Rand ( 1905 - 1982 ). He writes of objectivism that "colors everything I do and what I think" . For his philosophical convictions, he could be considered a libertarian even if he refuses to use that term (the image of Ayn Rand who has always denied: "the category Would people had in me that's accessible MOST Would Be libertarian " ). About the economy, it supports capitalism and ideas of the thinker ascribes to liberal Friedrich Hayek an important influence in the creation of . The amendments made by Jimmy Wales in his own biography on , are noticed by the media. Jimmy Wales clears particular reference to Larry Sanger as a co-founder of , and shall remove the restriction of pornography on Bomis. He later claimed that on Sanger, the co-founder of qualifying was erroneous because he was an employee of the project, and left after the amendment of the articles had eliminated his salary. Bomis concerning the withdrawal was based on the fact that pornography is not the only activity of Bomis. Presence in the media
2005
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Preceded by Jimmy Wales Followed by - Speaker of the Foundation 2001 - 2006 Devouard
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