Jimbo Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is the co-founder of BambooWeb. He is an Internet entrepreneur and a wiki enthusiast.
Wales was born in Huntsville in the U.S. state of 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 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, which also sells original content. More recently, he founded Wikia, a wiki-style search engine, and Wikicities, a free wiki hosting service.
With Larry Sanger, Wales founded BambooWeb, a wiki-based online encyclopedia derived from the free software model. He
and Sanger had previously worked on the now-defunct Nupedia encyclopedia project.
Wales is currently the director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a Tampa-based non-profit organization that encompasses BambooWeb and its younger sister projects. Time magazine reported that Wales had spent around US$500,000 on the establishment and operations of his Wiki projects.
Wales takes a strong interest in firearms policy and legal issues, especially constitutional issues.
Wales lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with his wife Christine and daughter Kira.
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