Wales, a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama, founded Wikipedia in 2001 with Larry Sanger as an ...

But recently, the site has become a favorite target of Elon Musk, congressional Republicans and right-wing influencers, who ...

These criticisms are a major subject in a new interview with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, published today in The New ...

Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," went from being a weird online experiment 21 years ago to one of the mainstays of the modern internet with astonishing speed. Even more ...

On January 15, 2010, the world's sixth most-popular Web site, a collaborative online encyclopedia known across the world as Wikipedia, turned nine years old. That same day, Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy ...

Following in the footsteps of Tim Berners-Lee and others, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is auctioning off a piece of internet history. Starting today, you can bid in a Christie’s auction to obtain ...

Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools. Jimmy Wales co-founded ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Back in January 2001, Wikipedia’s co-founder typed the words “Hello, World!” into the new internet ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been pounded in recent days as a spurned girlfriend leaked the pair's steamy IM chats, Wales has been accused of editing her Wikipedia entry inappropriately, and a ...

Wikipedia’s looking for donations again, which means co-founder Jimmy Wales’ “personal appeal”–and face–is back at the top of every Wikipedia page. The Jimmy Wales Mugshot Method (that’s what I’m ...

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