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5 unusual facts about Jimmy Wales


Fardad Farahzad

Farahzad has interviewed many Iranian and International figures, including Ehsan Yarshater and Jimmy Wales.

Hugo Rifkind

This was based on a conversation with site co-founder Jimmy Wales and included the admission that, in 2010, he (Rifkind) had inserted fictitious information about Queen Victoria in the Wikipedia entry for :29 April (the date in 2011 of the then-planned wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton) and had successfully fooled at least two journalists who had used the material in published stories.

Maurice Lacroix

In recent years, Maurice Lacroix has collaborated with Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales, musician Bob Geldof and British golfer Justin Rose on a brand endorsement campaign.

UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia is one of the three celebrities who were awarded the medal for 2013 at an event in honour of the 100th anniversary of Bohr's atomic model.

Zena El Khalil

Among the speakers were Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and Jonathan Zittrain, one of the principal investigators of the Open Net Initiative.


Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge

Among the Charter's endorsers there are Jimmy Wales, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Consumers International, Electronic Frontier Foundation, David Bollier, Students for Free Culture, European Digital Rights, Participatory Culture Foundation, La Quadrature du Net, Transnational Institute, Department of Digital Culture (Government of Brazil), Pirat Partie, Creative Commons España, La-EX, and Networked Politics.

Chuvash Wikipedia

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the international conference "Wikimedia Foundation" Wikimania 2009 on Chuvash example, Wikipedia has shown the value of Wikipedia for the languages on the verge of extinction.

Draft Communications Data Bill

At the RSA Conference Europe 2012, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the bill "will force many relatively small companies to hang on to data that they would not otherwise retain, which puts the data at risk".

Mark Fletcher

Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, Adam Curry, Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi.

National Institute of Technology Calicut

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, G. Madhavan Nair, Harold Kroto, Johannes Orphal, Jimmy Wales, and Suhas Gopinath, were some of the eminent guests in previous editions of Tathva.

The Wikipedia Revolution

Written as a popular history, the text ranges from short biographies of Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger and Ward Cunningham, to brief accounts of infamous events in Wikipedia's history such as the Essjay controversy and the Wikipedia biography controversy.

VPRO Backlight

In this episode the pros and cons of Wikipedia as well as other Web 2.0 websites were discussed by Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, Andrew Keen (writer), Charles Leadbeater (writer) and Robert McHenry (former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica).

We Are Smarter Than Me

Jimmy Wales — founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects.

Zhang Zuoyi

In January 2005, he was an unsuccessful nominee in the Tech Innovator category for a Rave Award, awarded annually by Wired Magazine, along with Jimmy Wales, Adam Curry, and Bill Healy.


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