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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," and gave them tools to create a self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks there’s “something really wrong with the web” and, as he wrote in a recent online “manifesto,” he wants “your help in fixing it.” For Wales ...
Wales: The social networking platform has been in the works since late last year.That was when I first started working on the prototype. We've been plugging away building version 1.0, that we're ...
Jimmy Wales: The school was very open-ended. We had a lot of time available for reading and independent study. That impacted my later work and the way I think about things today.
"Huge numbers of people want to do good things," says the Wikipedia co-founder as he brings company to the US. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film ...
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales discusses how the site, ... acknowledged that Wikipedia works. ... You just pound on each other forever. What you really want is a spirit of saying, “Okay, ...
In this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I interview Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia. ... Twitter, and the other carnivorous mammals of Web 2.0.
Jimmy Wales is the Internet entrepreneur who led the creation of the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. Wales worked as a research director for Chicago Options Associates before becoming a ...