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Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is a British-American Internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer who is most famous as one of the founders of Wikipedia, an international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Birth Name: Jimmy Donal Wales

Alternative Names: Jimbo Wales • Jimmy D. Wales

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