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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 ...
Jimmy Wales doesn't get to watch a lot of football. The Huntsville native, co-founder of Wikipedia, lives primarily in London and travels extensively. But he did find time to catch a college ...
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.
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.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks there’s “something really wrong with the web” and, as he wrote in a recent online “manifesto,” he wants “your help in fixing it.” ...
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 ...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales just threw the latest punch in his ongoing feud with X owner Elon Musk. Wales said that X — formerly known as Twitter — has become, in his view, overrun with ...
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 ...
Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales took a swing at Elon Musk's tech empire, targeting the billionaire's social network X and dismissing his new artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. Speaking on the ...
"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 ...
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 ...