Saturday, May 9, 2009

Who created Wikipedia, and when?

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc
In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation,[14] a non-profit organization[15] based in St. Petersburg, Florida, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects. The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation consists of seven directors as of May 2007.[16]

Wales has explained his motivations about Wikipedia. In an interview with Slashdot, he said, "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge

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