Although we all remember a world before Wikipedia, in many ways the site is now old-fashioned. “In a world with an enormous ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales Booth is a reporter at TIME. Jimmy Wales describes himself as a “pathological optimist.” And yet, when the co-founder of Wikipedia spoke ...

Jimmy Wales describes himself as a “pathological optimist.” And yet, when the co-founder of Wikipedia spoke with TIME in October, he still seemed somewhat surprised that his online encyclopedia ...

The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish ...

In 2017, Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales – the Wikipedia cofounder whose plaintive face used to haunt the free encyclopedia’s homepage during fundraising campaigns – decided to save journalism. As an avid ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica finally threw in the towel. In March 2012, after 244 years, the staple reference source of libraries and households ceased publishing its 32 dusty volumes. (It survives in ...

Jimmy Wales urges "Wikipedians" to focus on quality, announces One Laptop per Child project will include Wikipedia on machines. Photos: It's a Wikipedia world Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Why Wikipedia needs geeks and why a life unplugged is unthinkable In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's next for ...

The drama llama has been making his usual rounds of the Internet, kicking up a minor dust cloud about Wikipedia's funding model. A blog report on Wikimedia Chairwoman Florence Nibart-Devouard's recent ...

q&a Jimmy Wales is best known for evangelizing Wikipedia, the open-source, nonprofit encyclopedia he co-founded in 2001. On Tuesday his for-profit venture, Wikia, in its fourth year, unveiled a ...

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