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Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Donal Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. He has also worked on Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and Trust Café.

Across 1 conversation, Jimmy Wales ranges across notability, source reliability, open-source. Wikipedia's open collaboration model allowed it to outpace Nupedia, producing more content in two weeks than Nupedia did in two years. Wikipedia's notability criteria focus on verifiability rather than perceived importance, which can lead to contentious decisions about who is deemed noteworthy.

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