Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia

U.S. Internet entrepreneur and partner in the creation of Wikipedia
Wikipedia which saved 95% of students in the world also Wikipedia h is a perfect example for the awesome project which don't cost too much and win too much
Monthly 470 millions visits Wikipedia

in 1991 he started his music project called Bomis which sells pornographic pictures
Larry Sanger is worked as Editor-Chief in this web site

he is an Objectivist and libertarian his project Wikipedia is the biggest encyclopedia in the world which made time magazine choose him in the list of the most influential people in the world, in 2006

Honors, awards and positions

Wales at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Awards Show

On December 5, 2013, Wales was awarded the
UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal in Copenhagen, Denmark at a conference on "An Open World" to celebrate to 100th anniversary of Niels Bohr's atomic theory. His presentation on "Wikipedia, Democracy and the Internet" emphasised the need to expand Wikipedia into virtually all the languages of the world. The "Wikipedia Zero" initiative was beginning to prove successful in encouraging telecommunications companies to provide children in the developing world with free access to Wikipedia for educational purposes

Wales is a member of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and the Board of Directors at Creative Commons and Hunch.com He is a former co-chair of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East 2008 and a former board member of Socialtext
Wales was listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the Time 100 in 2006 and number 12 in Forbes "The Web Celebs 25 Wales has also given a lecture in the Stuart Regen Visionary series at New Museum which "honors special individuals who have made major contributions to art and culture, and are actively imagining a better future and by the World Economic Forum as one of the "Young Global Leaders" of 2007 In April 2011, Wales served on the jury of the Tribeca Film Festival. In February 2014, Wales was named one of "25 Web Superstars" by The Daily Telegraph.

Wales has received a Pioneer Award, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize and the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award in 2011 the Monaco Media Prize the 2009 Nokia Foundation annual award, the Business Process Award at the 7th Annual Innovation Awards and Summit by The Economist the 2008 Global Brand Icon of the Year Award, and on behalf of the Wikimedia project the Quadriga award of Werkstatt Deutschland for A Mission of Enlightenment. Wales has also received honorary degrees from Knox College, Amherst College Stevenson University, Argentina's Universidad Empresarial Siglo 21 and Russia's MIREA University.

Published works

    Brooks, Robert; Jon Corson, Jimmy Donal Wales (1994). "The Pricing of Index Options When the Underlying Assets All Follow a Lognormal Diffusion". Advances in Futures and Options Research 7.
    Wales, Jimmy; Andrea Weckerle (December 31, 2008), "Foreword", in Fraser, Matthew; Dutta, Soumitra, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World (1st ed.), Wiley, ISBN 0-470-74014-0, OCLC 233939846.
    Wales, Jimmy; Andrea Weckerle (January 8, 2009). "Commentary: Create a tech-friendly U.S. government". CNN.
    Wales, Jimmy; Andrea Weckerle (February 10, 2009), "Foreword", in Powell, Juliette, 33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking (1st ed.), Financial Times Press, ISBN 0-13-715435-6, OCLC 244066502.
    Wales, Jimmy; Andrea Weckerle (March 3, 2009), "Foreword", in Weber, Larry, Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business (2nd ed.), Wiley, ISBN 0-470-41097-3, OCLC 244060887.
    Wales, Jimmy (March 17, 2009), "Foreword", in Lih, Andrew, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (1st ed.), Hyperion, ISBN 1-4013-0371-4, OCLC 232977686.
    Wales, Jimmy; Andrea Weckerle (March 30, 2009). "Most Define User-Generated Content Too Narrowly". Advertising Age 80.
    Wales, Jimmy; Andrea Weckerle (December 28, 2009). "Keep a Civil Cybertongue". The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company).

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