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The original page is located at <span class="plainlinks" style="white-space:nowrap;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales"><span>https://en.wiki</span><span>pedia.org/wi</span><span>ki/User:Jimbo_Wales</span></a>.</span></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/" title="foundation:"><img alt="The Wikimedia Foundation&#39;s icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg/60px-Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg/90px-Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg/120px-Wikimedia_Foundation_RGB_logo_with_text.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" 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class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1966-08-07</span>) </span>August 7, 1966<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age&#160;58)</span><br /><div class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Huntsville,_Alabama" title="Huntsville, Alabama">Huntsville, Alabama</a>, US</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current&#160;location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style=";">Contact info</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jimmywales.com">jimmywales<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Email</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">jwales<span class="mw-no-invert"><span class="skin-invert" 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4px 0 4px;height:45px;line-height:1.2em;color:#000000;vertical-align:middle">This user has <span class="plainlinks nopopups"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&amp;action=info#mw-pageinfo-watchers"><b>100</b></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Centijimbos" title="Wikipedia:Centijimbos">centijimbos</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Welcome!"><span id="Welcome.21"></span>Welcome!</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Welcome!"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hello! My name is <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> and this is my <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">user page</a>. I go by "Jimmy" in real life, but often as "Jimbo" online. People sometimes assume that "Jimmy" is just a <a href="/wiki/Nickname" title="Nickname">nickname</a> for "James", but it's actually my full <a href="/wiki/Given_name" title="Given name">first name</a>. </p><p>I was born on August 7, 1966, in <a href="/wiki/Huntsville" class="mw-redirect" title="Huntsville">Huntsville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>. I <a href="/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#Founding_of_Wikipedia" title="History of Wikipedia">co-founded</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> on January 15, 2001. Since 2006, I have been the <a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">Chair</a> <a href="/wiki/Emeritus" title="Emeritus">Emeritus</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, which <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sanger" title="Larry Sanger">Larry Sanger</a> and I set up on June&#160;20, 2003. In 2004, <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Former_Board_of_Trustees_members#Angela_Beesley" class="extiw" title="wmf:Former Board of Trustees members">Angela Beesley</a> and I established <a href="/wiki/Fandom_(website)#2004–09:_Early_days_and_growth" title="Fandom (website)">Wikia</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Fandom_(website)#2016–2018:_Fandom_brand" title="Fandom (website)">Fandom</a>), a completely separate organization unrelated to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Another independent project that I worked on was <a href="/wiki/WikiTribune" title="WikiTribune">WikiTribune</a>, a collaborative news website. My most recent project was the launch of <a href="/wiki/WT_Social" title="WT Social">WT Social</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service">social networking service</a>. I am proud of having founded Wikipedia, and I am grateful for what it has offered to millions of people worldwide. I was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Hall_of_Fame" title="Internet Hall of Fame">Internet Hall of Fame</a> in 2013. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="You_can_edit_this_page!"><span id="You_can_edit_this_page.21"></span>You can edit this page!</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: You can edit this page!"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg/220px-10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg/330px-10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg/440px-10_sharing_book_cover_background.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3173" data-file-height="2754" /></a><figcaption>Wikipedia is yours, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">I trust you</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_no_money_handshake.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/A_no_money_handshake.svg/220px-A_no_money_handshake.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/A_no_money_handshake.svg/330px-A_no_money_handshake.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/A_no_money_handshake.svg/440px-A_no_money_handshake.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1090" /></a><figcaption>Help stop <a href="/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/Paid_Advocacy_FAQ" title="User:Jimbo Wales/Paid Advocacy FAQ">paid advocacy</a> editing now! Read more about this in the relevant <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#paid-contrib-disclosure" class="extiw" title="wikimedia:Terms of Use">terms of use section</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:No_vandalism_allowed_on_Wikipedia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/No_vandalism_allowed_on_Wikipedia.svg/220px-No_vandalism_allowed_on_Wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/No_vandalism_allowed_on_Wikipedia.svg/330px-No_vandalism_allowed_on_Wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/No_vandalism_allowed_on_Wikipedia.svg/440px-No_vandalism_allowed_on_Wikipedia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="352" data-file-height="301" /></a><figcaption>Don't be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">vandal</a>; be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia">contributor</a> instead!</figcaption></figure> <p>You can! If you would like to, please feel free to do so. You need to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Register" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Register">register</a> for an account, hang around for a few days, and make some good edits to pages that are totally <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Unprotected_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Unprotected page">unprotected</a> (which is most of them!). You'll be "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AUTOCONFIRM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AUTOCONFIRM">autoconfirmed</a>". Make an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia">edit</a> or two! After all, that's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Wikipedia:About">what Wikipedia is all about</a>! </p><p>I like to keep it a certain way (simple and free from complicated <a href="/wiki/Help:Wikitext" title="Help:Wikitext">markup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets" class="mw-redirect" title="Cascading Style Sheets">styles</a>, or excessive <a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">templates</a>), but the thing is, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">I trust you</a>. Yes, I do! I trust that you will add something here that would make me smile and inform me or many other individuals. But please, do not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">vandalize</a>, because it won't make the world any better, and you know that too, so please don't. Thank you for helping to keep Wikipedia clean. </p><p><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&amp;action=info#mw-pageinfo-watchers">About 4,000</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedians">Wikipedians</a> monitor my user and user talk pages via a <a href="/wiki/Help:Watchlist" title="Help:Watchlist">watchlist</a>, and I trust them to edit and remove errors or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks" title="Wikipedia:No personal attacks">attacks</a>. This <i>is</i> a <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a> after all, so <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Who_writes_Wikipedia%3F" title="Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia?">anyone</a> is welcome to edit! Wikipedia is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_work_in_progress" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress">permanent work in progress</a>, so it can always use more help. While vandalism is not appreciated and is sure to be promptly <a href="/wiki/Help:Reverting" title="Help:Reverting">reverted</a>, there is plenty of time to become a better <a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Wikipedia editor</a> who only contributes to the good of the platform! </p><p>Comments or questions about how this page currently looks should be kept on <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales" title="User talk:Jimbo Wales">my talk page</a>, rather than on this page. Also, if you don't feel <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BOLD">bold</a> enough to edit this page directly or don't know whether the edit is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_help" title="Wikipedia:How to help">helpful</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">legal</a>, you can propose changes there instead. </p><p>You are welcome to make test edits in <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/sandbox" title="Special:MyPage/sandbox">your sandbox</a> if you are logged in or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox" title="Wikipedia:Sandbox">the public sandbox</a> if you are not logged in. Help us build the most comprehensive source of information on the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>! </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contacting_me">Contacting me</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Contacting me"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg/250px-WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg/375px-WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg/500px-WikiMeet_London_-_Jimbo_talks.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Guess who? It's me, Wales. Jimmy Wales, from 2004!</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Press inquiries:</b> For inquiries regarding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> or another <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimedia">Wikimedia project</a>, you can get in touch by emailing <b><span class="nowrap">press<span class="mw-no-invert"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="@"><img alt="@" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/23px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/30px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145" /></span></span></span>wikimedia.org</span></b>. 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Contacting me directly with a complaint should be reserved for <i>after</i> you have exhausted all other possible remedies (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Wikipedia:Dispute resolution</a>). <br />If you have a complaint about article content, there are many avenues to pursue. The best and simplest way is to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold" title="Wikipedia:Be bold">just fix it</a>. You can also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines">open a discussion</a> on the article's <a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_pages" title="Help:Talk pages">talk page</a> about the issues you wish to address. Be sure that you are adding well-written text using legitimate information from credible, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">reliable sources</a>. 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This is how Wikipedia works.</li> <li><b>Other inquiries of any kind:</b> These can be emailed to <b><span class="nowrap">jwales<span class="mw-no-invert"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="@"><img alt="@" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/23px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/30px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145" /></span></span></span>wikia.com</span></b>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <i><b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" class="extiw" title="q:Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a></b></i>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us" title="Wikipedia:Contact us">Contact Wikipedia</a> – Describes how to contact Wikipedia directly for specific reasons</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> – The Wikipedia article about Jimmy Wales</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales" title="Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales">Role of Jimmy Wales</a> – Describes the current status of Jimmy Wales on the English Wikipedia and its administrative bodies, with some examples of how he has used his powers in the past</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.quora.com/profile/Jimmy-Wales">Jimmy Wales on Quora</a> – Jimmy has answered hundreds of questions on <a href="/wiki/Quora" title="Quora">Quora</a>, many of which concern Wikipedia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User:Jimbo_Wales/" title="Special:PrefixIndex/User:Jimbo Wales/">Jimbo Wales user-subpages</a> – List of all the pages that begin with <i>User:Jimbo Wales</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jimbo_Wales" title="Special:Contributions/Jimbo Wales">Contributions</a> – Jimmy's personal contributions to the English Wikipedia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#Early_roles_of_Wales_and_Sanger" title="History of Wikipedia">History of Wikipedia</a> – Information on the founding of the Wikipedia project and the early roles of its founding members</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of 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