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.

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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Pen Names: Jimbo

Birth Name: Jimmy Donal Wales

Alternative Names: Jimbo Wales • Jimmy D. Wales

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[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.

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