Mr. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, visits Mumbai !
I attended the meet at ’The Sophia College, South Mumbai” on 31st, October, 10, along with Shri. Hariprasad nadig, and Shreekant mishrikoti..... Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter ofWikipedia. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. He attended The Randolph School and a university-preparatory school, and then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance. While in graduate school, he taught at two universities. Wales later took a job in finance, and worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm for several years. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal that targeted males, and which hosted, and provided the initial funding for, the peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003) and its successor, Wikipedia. In 2001, together with Larry Sanger and others, Wales helped launch Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia which enjoyed rapid gr...