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[[Image:Time 100 Jimmy Wales stares and grins.jpg|250px|thumb|Wales being interviewed on the red carpet of the [[Time 100|2006 Time 100]], by [[Amanda Congdon]] for ''[[Rocketboom]]'', a daily Internet [[vidcast]].]] |
[[Image:Time 100 Jimmy Wales stares and grins.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Wales being interviewed on the red carpet of the [[Time 100|2006 Time 100]], by [[Amanda Congdon]] for ''[[Rocketboom]]'', a daily Internet [[vidcast]].]]Wales was appointed a fellow of the [[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]] at [[Harvard Law School]] in 2005. On [[October 3]] [[2005]], according to a press release,<ref>{{cite news|title=Wikipedia Founder Joins Socialtext Board|date=[[2005-10-03]]|publisher=[[Socialtext]]|url=http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/051003wikiwales.html}}</ref> Wales joined the [[Board of Directors]] of [[Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization [[Creative Commons]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members|date=[[2006-03-30]]|publisher=[[Creative Commons]]|url=http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5840}}</ref> |
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Wales was appointed a fellow of the [[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]] at [[Harvard Law School]] in 2005. |
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| ⚫ | Wales received an [[honorary degree]] from [[Knox College]] on [[June 3]] [[2006]]. The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] awarded him a Pioneer Award on [[May 3]] [[2006]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/14632|title=EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards|date=[[2006-04-28]]|publisher=Kansas City infoZine News|accessdate=2006-06-05}}</ref> |
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On [[October 3]] [[2005]], according to a press release,<ref>{{cite news|title=Wikipedia Founder Joins Socialtext Board|date=[[2005-10-03]]|publisher=[[Socialtext]]|url=http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/051003wikiwales.html}}</ref> Wales joined the [[Board of Directors]] of [[Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. |
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| ⚫ | Wales was the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the [[May 8]] [[2006]] special edition of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing [[Time 100|100 influential people]].<ref name=influence>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187286,00.html|title=Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Wikipedia|date=[[2006-05-08]]|publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|accessdate=2006-04-30|last=Anderson|first=Chris}}</ref> |
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====2006==== |
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In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization [[Creative Commons]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members|date=[[2006-03-30]]|publisher=[[Creative Commons]]|url=http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5840}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | On [[November 4]] [[2006]], Wales appeared in the "Not My Job" segment of ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]'', a weekly news-quiz show on [[National Public Radio]]. The topic was "It must be True, I read it on Wikipedia". He answered all three questions incorrectly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=11-04-2006&view=storyview|title="This Week's Show 4 November 2006"|Accessdate=2006-11-10|date=[[2006-11-04]]}}</ref> |
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*On [[June 3]] [[2006]], Wales received an [[honorary degree]] from [[Knox College]]. |
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Wales was featured in the [[April 2]] [[2007]] issue of ''Time'' magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." He answered ten questions culled from ''Time'''s readership. He was the second to be interviewed in this fashion, after Chris Rock, as previously the questions were composed by a ''Time'' staff member. In his replies, he acknowledged the limitations of Wikipedia, while defending its usefulness.<ref>No byline (2007). [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1601491,00.html "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales"] Time.com (accessed [[2007-03-24]]).</ref> |
Wales was featured in the [[April 2]] [[2007]] issue of ''Time'' magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." He answered ten questions culled from ''Time'''s readership. He was the second to be interviewed in this fashion, after Chris Rock, as previously the questions were composed by a ''Time'' staff member. In his replies, he acknowledged the limitations of Wikipedia, while defending its usefulness.<ref>No byline (2007). [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1601491,00.html "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales"] Time.com (accessed [[2007-03-24]]).</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:44, 23 April 2007
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales | |
|---|---|
 Jimmy Wales (August 2006)[1] | |
| Born | August 7, 1966[2] |
| Occupation(s) | President of Wikia, Inc.; Board member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation |
| Spouse | Christine[3] |
| Children | Kira[4] |
| Website | User page on Wikipedia |
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, (born August 7, 1966)[2] is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.[5][6][7][8]
Personal life
Wales' father worked as a grocery store manager while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran a small private school "in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse" where Wales received his education. Most of the time there were four children in his grade so the school grouped the first through fourth grade students together and the fifth through eighth grade students together.[9]
Education
After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, Alabama, which was an early supporter of computer labs and other technology for student use. Wales has said that the school was expensive for his family, but that education was regarded as important. "Education was always a passion in my household … you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life."[9] He received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and started with the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama, where he left with a Master's in finance.[9] After that, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the doctoral dissertation required to earn a Ph.D.[9]
Career
From 1994-2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trader in Chicago.[9] By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives", according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine.[10] During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of a dot-com erotic search engine, Bomis, that later helped in the initial funding for Wikipedia. The nature of Bomis is disputed — Wales describes Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine" that often sold erotic materials which was similar in nature to "Maxim" magazine with sometimes scantily clad women when confronted with the opinion that Bomis dealt in "soft-core pornography."[11]
In a 2007 interview Wales said that in 1999 he had a student design software for a top-down design multilingual encyclopedia website, however it was too slow to be usable.[12]
In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, Nupedia ("the free encyclopedia"), and hired Larry Sanger to be its editor-in-chief.[9]
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation
After Larry Sanger publicly proposed on January 10, 2001 the idea of using a wiki to create an encyclopedia, Wales installed wiki software on a server and authorized Sanger to pursue the project under his supervision. Sanger dubbed the project "Wikipedia" and, with Wales, laid down the founding principles, content and established an Internet-based community of contributors during that year. Wikipedia was initially intended to be a wiki-based site for collaboration on early encyclopedic content for submission to Nupedia, but Wikipedia's rapid growth soon outstripped Nupedia's process capacity to review new content.[citation needed] Sanger was laid off in early 2002 and he then resigned from the leadership of Wikipedia.[13][14][15][16] Wales has said that he initially was so worried with the concept that he would wake up in the middle of the night, wanting to check the site for vandalism.[12]
In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation,[17] a non-profit organization based in St. Petersburg, Florida, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects.[citation needed] He appointed himself and two business partners who are not active Wikipedians to the five-member board; the remaining two members are elected community representatives.[citation needed]
Wales has explained his motivations about Wikipedia. In an interview with Slashdot, he said, "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."[18]
He also later went on to co-found, along with Angela Beesley, the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.
Media appearances and honors
Wales was appointed a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2005. On October 3 2005, according to a press release,[19] Wales joined the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses. In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Creative Commons.[20]
Wales received an honorary degree from Knox College on June 3 2006. The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded him a Pioneer Award on May 3 2006.[21]
Wales was the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the May 8 2006 special edition of Time ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing 100 influential people.[22]
On November 4 2006, Wales appeared in the "Not My Job" segment of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a weekly news-quiz show on National Public Radio. The topic was "It must be True, I read it on Wikipedia". He answered all three questions incorrectly.[23]
Wales appeared on PBS' Charlie Rose on October 6 2006.[24]
Jimmy Wales was nominated for Beard of the Year 2006,[25] and Forbes "The Web Celebs 25" ranked him #12 in 2007.[26]
Wales was featured in the April 2 2007 issue of Time magazine in the article "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." He answered ten questions culled from Time's readership. He was the second to be interviewed in this fashion, after Chris Rock, as previously the questions were composed by a Time staff member. In his replies, he acknowledged the limitations of Wikipedia, while defending its usefulness.[27]
On April 10, 2007 the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries (in South Carolina and hosted by Converse College) had Jimmy Wales as a special guest speaker.[28] A humorous event occurred when an introductory speaker (Dr. Mark Monson) misspoke while presenting an award and said “gynecological” rather than “genealogical”. Later, during a question and answer period Wales was asked by a school aged child what Wales’s favorite article was that a third grader could read. Wales (after some consideration) said that Inherently funny word would probably be the case.[28] He later cautioned that a parent may want to check on this before sending their child to the site. However, perhaps a new word will be added to this article because the questioner after a few attempts at pronunciation asked if “genie-whatever that was” was one of those words, and if it was the study of genies. Wales advised that this question be answered by his parents and continued with the forum.
Controversy
Bomis
In 1996, Wales founded a search portal called Bomis, which also sold erotic materials until mid-2005. He was asked in a September 2005 C-SPAN interview about his previous involvement with what the interviewer, Brian Lamb, called "dirty pictures." In response, Wales described Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine", with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine.[9] In an interview with Wired News, he also explained that he disputed the categorization of Bomis content as "soft-core pornography": "If R-rated movies are porn, it was porn. In other words, no, it was not."[11]
Wikipedia revisionism
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In late 2005, Wales was criticized for editing his own biography page on Wikipedia. Larry Sanger commented that "it seemed Wales was trying to rewrite history".[11][29][30] In particular, Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that Wales had removed references to Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.[30][31] He was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products.[11] An article in the July 31 2006 issue of the New Yorker magazine[32] expanded on this topic:
Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Wikipedia entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. "Adult content" or "glamour photography" are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes. (In January, Wales agreed to a compromise: "erotic photography.")
In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content.[11] Wales explained that Sanger had been his employee,[33] and that he considered himself to be the sole founder of Wikipedia. In 2006, Wales told the Boston Globe that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder;[34] however, Sanger strongly contests that description. He was identified as a co-founder of Wikipedia at least as early as September 2001[35] and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.[36] In addition to developing Wikipedia in its early phase, Sanger claims he is also responsible for the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a free encyclopedia. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."[37] In response to Wales revisionism,[5] Sanger posted on his personal webpage a collection of evidence about his role in founding Wikipedia by referencing earlier versions of Wikipedia pages, citing press releases from Wikipedia in the years of 2002-2004, and early media coverage, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders.[38]
Following this incident, Wales apologized for editing his own biography, which is a practice generally frowned upon at Wikipedia. Wales said in the Wired interview, "People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it."[11] He continues to assert that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia.[34] However, it has been reported that Wales is the co-founder.[39]
Personal philosophy
Wales is a self-avowed "Objectivist to the core," although he says, "I think I do a better job — than a lot of people who self-identify as Objectivists — of not pushing my point of view on other people."[40] When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on C-SPAN's Q&A about Rand, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a libertarian, qualifying his remark by referring to the Libertarian Party as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles.[9] From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy".[41]
Published works by Wales
- Robert Brooks, Jon Corson, and J. Donal Wales. "The Pricing of Index Options When the Underlying Assets All Follow a Lognormal Diffusion", in Advances in Futures and Options Research, volume 7, 1994. See also log-normal distribution.
Sources and notes
- ^ "Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google". Times Online. 2006-12-23. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "Wales, Jimmy", Britannica Book of the Year, 2007
- ^ ""Board of Trustees" at Wikimedia Foundation". Retrieved 2007-01-12.
- ^ Times Online Article about Jimmy Wales
- ^ a b Mitchell, Dan (2005-12-24). "Insider Editing at Wikipedia". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/January_2002 Wikipedia press release 01/15/2002
- ^ Bergstein, Brian (2007-03-25). "Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia". ABC News. Associated Press. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem particularly controversial - Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, isn't happy about it.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) — Brian Bergstein. - ^ McNichol, Tom (2007-03-01). "Wikipedia founder hunts for gold". Business 2.0. CNN. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d e f g h Lamb, Brian (2005-09-25). "Q&A: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder". C-SPAN. Retrieved 2006-07-11.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Pink, Daniel H. (2005-03-13). "The Book Stops Here". Wired. Retrieved 2006-10-09.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d e f Hansen, Evan. "Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio". Wired News. Wired. Retrieved 2006-02-14.
- ^ a b In Search of an Online Utopia 2007-02-01.
- ^ My resignation--Larry Sanger 2002-03-01. Retrieved on 2006-10-19.
- ^ Wikipedia's co-founder eyes a Digital Universe 2006-01-06.
- ^ Co-Founder to Launch Edited Version of Wikipedia 2006-10-17.
- ^ My role in Wikipedia January 2007.
- ^ Wikimedia foundation bylaws.
- ^ Wales, Jimmy (2004-07-28). ""Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Replies"". Slashdot. Retrieved 2006-06-07.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Wikipedia Founder Joins Socialtext Board". Socialtext. 2005-10-03.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members". Creative Commons. 2006-03-30.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards". Kansas City infoZine News. 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Anderson, Chris (2006-05-08). "Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Wikipedia". Time. Retrieved 2006-04-30.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ ""This Week's Show 4 November 2006"". 2006-11-04.
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- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2006/12/beard_of_the_year.shtml
- ^ www.forbes.com/webcelebs
- ^ No byline (2007). "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales" Time.com (accessed 2007-03-24).
- ^ a b Wales, Jimmy (April 10, 2007). (Speech). Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
{{cite speech}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Rhys Blakely. "Wikipedia founder edits himself". Times Online. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ a b Rogers Cadenhead. "Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1". Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ "Wikipedia diff showing modification by Mr. Wales". Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact
- ^ Jonathan Sidener. "Everyone's Encyclopedia". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- ^ a b Knott, Janet (2006-02-12). "Bias, sabotage haunt Wikipedia's free world". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2006-04-12.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Peter Meyers (2001-09-20). "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You". New York Times. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work," said Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder and the chief executive of Bomis, a San Diego search engine company that donates the computer resources for the project. "There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things." Instead, he said, "there's a general consensus among all of the really busy volunteers about what an encyclopedia article needs to be like.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Sanger, Larry. "What Wikipedia is and why it matters". Retrieved 2006-04-12.
- ^ Sanger, Larry (2005-04-18). "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir". Slashdot. Retrieved 2005-04-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Larry Sanger. "My role in Wikipedia (links)". larrysanger.org. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
- ^ "Wikipedia's Wales touts 'free culture' movement". ZDNet. 2006-08-04.
- ^ http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/01/29/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-rusirius-google-objectivism/
- ^ Wales, Jimmy (1992-09-23). "Re: Objectivism of Ayn Rand". Newsgroup: talk.philosophy.misc. Bv1u8x.Bnv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu.
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External links
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
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Quotations from Wikiquote
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Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- News media
- Setsuko Kamiya (2007-03-11). "Power to the Wikipeople". The Japan Times.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses encyclopedias, Microsoft and the next big thing(s) on the Internet". Newsweek. 2007-02-01.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "It's a Wiki world out there for the Web's groupmind". USA Today. 2003-07-01.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Mark Hurst (2005-03-10). "Interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Good Experience.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Michael Hinman (2005-09-23). "St. Petersburg tech brain creates 'wiki' world with online encyclopedia". Tampa Bay Business Journal.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Andrew Orlowski (2005-10-18). "Wikipedia founder admits serious quality problems". The Register.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Nathan C. Kaiser (2005-11-01). "Interview with Jimmy Wales, WikiPedia Founder". nPost.com.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Brad Stone (2005-11-01). "It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki". Newsweek.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Joseph D. Bryant (2005-12-31). "Alabamian is brain behind Wikipedia". The Birmingham News.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Rhys Blakely (2005-12-30). "Wikipedia Chief considers taking ads". Times Online.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - David Colman (2006-08-13). "Industrial Art Illuminates Life". New York Times.
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- Audio/video
- Video of Jimmy Wales speaking at Gel 2005 conference April 29, 2005
- Open Source - The Wikipedia 2005-05-19 - hosted by Christopher Lydon
- “The Intelligence of Wikipedia" Talk Video of Jimmy Wales talk given at the Oxford Internet Institute - recorded 2005-07-11
- Video of Jimmy Wales speaking at TED Global Conference (July 12-July 15 2005) Oxford, UK
- Video of Jimmy Wales discussing Wikipedia 40 minutes from a talk Jimmy held at Stanford on 2005-09-02 available as an avi in torrent form and licensed under the Creative Commons (QuickTime: 200 MB, 70 MB)
- IT Conversations interview with Jimbo - recorded 2005-09-03
- Speech on Wednesday, 2005-10-05
- Video of Jimmy Wales interview by Irene McGee of NoOne's Listening 9 minutes, from Media Alliance event held in San Francisco on 2005-10-10
- Talk of the Nation - Wikipedia, Open Source and the Future of the Web, 2005-11-02
- Audio of Jimmy Wales talk at the iSchool, UC Berkeley about Community & politics & future plans & other things, 2005-11-03
- Jimmy Wales Talks Wikipedia on The Writing Show recorded 2005-12-05, posted 2006-01-01
- Jimmy Wales Keynote Speech on Wikipedia, Mass Tech Leadership Council meeting, 2006-02-08. Podcast by Dan Bricklin Podcast description.
- "Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture" for The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, 2006-04-14
- Video of "Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture" for The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, 2006-04-14
- Audio interview on FLOSS Weekly, 2006-05-26
- Audio interview on On Point, 2006-08-02
- No One's Listening interview of Jimmy Wales
- BBC Radio Five interview, 2007-01-08
- Interview with RU Sirius, 2007-01-29
- Video of and notes from Jimmys Talk on Free Culture, Transparency, and Search at New York University, 2007-01-31
- MP3 of Jimmy's talk about Wikia Search at NYU, 2007-01-31
- Jimmy Wales interviewed on KQED's Forum Program, 2007-01-05
- Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross 2007-04-18
- Jimmy Wales on Cranky Geeks April 3, 2007
- Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from April 2007
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