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 growth and popularity. As Wikipedia's public profile grew, Wales became the project's promoter and spokesman. Wales is historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation in declaring himself the sole founder. Wales serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization which operates Wikipedia.
He holds its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a privately-owned, free Web-hosting service, with fellow Wikimedia trustee Angela Beesley.
Jimmy was with us after the Wiki meet at the Sophia College, Fort, Mumbai. This was the first meet attended by me. As per the records, Internet operators, are increasing in number, so are the number of Wikipedia knowledge based articles are popping on the screens of the computers ....
I have completed nearly 300 articles, and surprised to meet a Bengali co-worker, who has finished 11,200 articles...Of course, you know, he is a Bengali....But, where are we, great Kannadigas ? Well ,we are in the fifth or six stage. first being Hindi, next is Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Bihari..... and so on... Always our slogan would be
" ಯಾವನೇನಾದ್ರೂ ಮಾಡ್ಲಿ ಬಿಡ್ರಿ ಸಾರ್. ಅವನು ಈಗೆಲ್ಲೊ ಕಣ್ಣು ಬಿದ್ತಿದಾನೆ, ಅಷ್ಟೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರ ಭಾಷೆ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ ಯಾವಾಗಿಂದು ...ಹೋಗ್ಲಿ ಬಿಡಿ ಸಾರ್...! ಇಂಟರ್ ನೆಟ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಬರ್ದಾಕ್ಷಣಕ್ಕೆ ಅವನೇನ್ ದೊಡ್ಡಮನುಷ್ಯನಾಗೋದ್ನಾ ?
While Dining...
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