CASE STUDY 1: Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link. Wikipedia is a project of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

Co-founder: Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur. A former professional futures and options trader and an aficionado of objectivist philosophy

, Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia derived from the open source model, which he founded with Larry Sanger. Wales is currently the director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that encompasses Wikipedia and its younger sister projects, such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikiquotes.

• Date of Birth: August 7, 1966
• Place of Birth: Huntsville, Alabama
• Claim to Fame: Internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia

A former professional futures and options trader and an aficionado of objectivist philosophy, Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia derived from the open source model, which he founded with Larry Sanger. Wales is currently the chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that encompasses Wikipedia and its younger sister projects, such as Wiktionary,Wikibooks, and Wikiquotes. In 2006, Wales was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People issue, for having brought wikies to the masses. He also started the for-profit company, Wikia Inc., a free web-hosting service for wikis.


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