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Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia.
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.
The founder of Wikipedia says he's on a mission to fight fake news. Jimmy Wales is launching a news platform that will bring journalists together with an army of volunteer fact checkers.
Wikitribune, the crowdfunded news platform from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, was announced last week, but we’ve seen relatively few details about how it will run and the kinds of topics it will ...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales criticized the moderation policies of X in an interview at Web Summit. He contends the platform has become overrun with trolls and "a lot of thoughtful and serious ...
In this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I interview Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a rare survivor from the Internet Hippie Age, coexisting like a great herbivorous ...
(It survives in digital form.) Who humbled the mighty Britannica? Jimmy Wales and his crowdsourced compendium of all the world’s knowledge. Wikipedia began as a side project of Wales’ dotcom ...
Despite its frequent and serious inaccuracies, GPT has got Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinking seriously about how AI might become part of the workflow at the largest and most-read reference ...
Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales criticized Twitter CEO Elon Musk's decision to restrict some content on the social platform leading up to Turkey's tightly-contested presidential election ...
"And what it's doing is essentially bringing us into a state of perpetual distraction." (l-r: Jimmy Wales and Nicholas Carr; [Download Video: "The Debaters Arrive" - 1320kb]) Carr, author of The ...
Jimmy Wales has discovered the only thing more challenging - and satisfying -- than launching Wikipedia nearly a decade ago is refining the free, open source encyclopedia even as it is in the grip ...