Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Donal Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki
Wales in 2023
Jimbo at Fosdem cropped
The staff of Wales' Internet company Bomis photographed in summer 2000. Wales is third from the left in the back row with Christine Rohan — at the time Christine Wales, his second wife.
Wales appearing as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees at Wikimania 2007
Larry Sanger
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Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia and provided initial drafts for many of its e
Jimmy Wales
…Options Associates. In 1996, Wales co-founded Bomis, which funded the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003). On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, he launched Wikipedia, which grew rapidly. Wales became its promoter and public face, though he has at times disputed Sanger's role, claiming…
Sanger in 2025
Sanger in 1986
Sanger in 2006