It is pretty weird. A few years ago, I was just some guy si… - Jimmy Wales

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It is pretty weird. A few years ago, I was just some guy sitting in front of the internet. Now I send an e-mail or edit an article and it makes headlines around the world … I used to be just a guy — now I'm 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 • Jimbo • Jimmy D. Wales

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