Wikipedia in the free culture revolution

  • Authors:
  • Jimmy Wales

  • Affiliations:
  • Wikipedia Foundation

  • Venue:
  • OOPSLA '05 Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia project, and Wikicities.com, which extends the social concepts of Wikipedia into new areas. Jimmy was formerly a futures and options trader in Chicago, and currently travels the world evangelizing the success of Wikipedia and the importance of free culture. When not traveling, Jimmy lives in Florida with his wife and daughter.