# Jimmy Wales ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-03-16 Jimmy Wales.jpg|400]] American-British internet entrepreneur, co-founder of [[Wikipedia]] (2001) alongside [[Larry Sanger]]. Wales provided the vision and infrastructure for an open, freely editable encyclopedia, initially as a complement to the expert-written Nupedia project. When Wikipedia rapidly outgrew Nupedia, Wales pivoted fully to the wiki model. He founded the Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 to host Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wales has been a vocal advocate for free knowledge, open content, and internet freedom. He also co-founded the for-profit wiki hosting service Wikia (now Fandom) in 2004. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Jimmy Wales]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Jimmy Wales]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Wikipedia]] - [[Larry Sanger]] - [[Collective Intelligence]] - [[Open Source]] ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales