Jimmy Wales

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Acting · Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.

Jimmy Donal Wales, also known by the online moniker Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.

Known for

• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self2022
• The Wikipedia Promise — Self - Wikipedia Founder2021
• Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web — Self2017
• Web — Himself2013
• InRealLife — Himself - Co-Founder, Wikipedia2013
• Page One: Inside the New York Times — Self2011
• America: The Story of Us — Self2010
• Worldwidewebwonder - 20 Years "WWW" - 40 Years Internet — Self2009
• The Truth According to Wikipedia — Himself (Wikipedia founder)2008
• Click — Self2000

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Brooklyn

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

579

Total plays

2,315

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,258x

2. An approach to correlate tandem mass spectral data of peptides with amino acid sequences in a protein database

   · 1994 · cited 5,715x

3. Role of YAP/TAZ in mechanotransduction

   · 2011 · cited 5,557x

4. Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain

   · 2006 · cited 5,270x

5. An Integrated Genomic Analysis of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme

   · 2008 · cited 4,970x

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Quotes

• “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.”
• “I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.”
• “I have no plans at all to be running an asylum. This is a serious encyclopedia project. We *do* have to make our changes conservatively and slowly, so as to make sure that we preserve our open spirit to the maximal degree possible. But some people are just not suitable for editing here, and that's just a simple brute fact.”
• “[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.”
• “When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.”
• “Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.”

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