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Jimmy Wales
Founder of the online non-profit encyclopaedia Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia
Jimmy serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2019, Jimmy launched WT Social – a news-focused social network.
In 2006 Jimmy was named in Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ for his role in creating Wikipedia.