{"id":18448,"date":"2019-04-07T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=18448"},"modified":"2019-04-07T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T14:47:11","slug":"jimmy-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/jimmy-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Wales: Learn about the story behind Wikipedia\u2019s founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"RTL\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/static.t13.cl\/images\/sizes\/1200x675\/1493125205-95771319mediaitem95770527.jpg\" alt=\"Cute little picture\" width=\"681\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u064a\u0639\u062a\u0628\u0631 \u062c\u064a\u0645\u064a \u0648\u064a\u0644\u0632 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0634\u0647\u0631 \u0631\u062c\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0646\u062a\u0631\u0646\u062a\u060c \u0634\u0627\u0631\u0643 \u0641\u064a \u062a\u0623\u0633\u064a\u0633 \u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u064a\u0643\u064a\u0628\u064a\u062f\u064a\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u064a\u0639\u062f \u0623\u0643\u0628\u0631\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">online encyclopedia<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> \u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0631\u0628\u062d\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0629.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0648\u062f\u062e\u0644 \u0642\u0627\u0626\u0645\u0629 \u0645\u062c\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0627\u064a\u0645 \u0644\u0623\u0643\u062b\u0631 100 \u0634\u062e\u0635\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0623\u062b\u064a\u0631\u0627\u064b \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u060c \u0643\u0645\u0627 \u0627\u0639\u062a\u0628\u0631\u062a\u0647 \u0645\u062c\u0644\u0629 \u0641\u0648\u0631\u0628\u0633 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0643\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0634\u062e\u0627\u0635 \u0634\u0647\u0631\u0629\u064b \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jimmy Donal Wales was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Madison County, in central Alabama, United States, into a middle-class family. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">He attended Randolph School, a college-preparatory school, and later earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in finance from Auburn University <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">in Alabama. He then earned a master\u2019s degree from the University of Alabama.<span dir=\"LTR\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">In 1994, Wales worked for several years as research director at Chicago Options, a Chicago-based futures and speculative trading firm in Illinois. The company traded <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">futures, and he also traded a variety of commodities. Within a few years, he had made enormous profits. Wales has described himself as an internet addict <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">since childhood, so he decided to leave financial trading and become an internet entrepreneur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u0648\u0641\u064a \u0639\u0627\u0645 1996\u060c \u0623\u0633\u0633 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0648\u0646 \u0645\u0639 \u0627\u062b\u0646\u064a\u0646 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0635\u062f\u0642\u0627\u0626\u0647 \u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639 \u0628\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064a\u060c \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u064a\u0642\u062f\u0645 \u0645\u0648\u0627\u062f \u0645\u0635\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0645\u0648\u062c\u0647\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u0628\u0627\u0644\u063a\u064a\u0646\u060c \u0648\u0642\u062f \u062d\u0642\u0642 \u0648\u064a\u0644\u0632 \u0648\u0634\u0631\u0643\u0627\u0626\u0647 <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">substantial profits by selling visual content and running ads on their site. Wales later shut the site down and stopped working on websites that <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u062a\u0628\u062b \u0645\u062d\u062a\u0648\u0649 \u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0623\u062e\u0644\u0627\u0642\u064a.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">In 2000, he launched the Nupedia encyclopedia, but soon discovered that the information it provided was inaccurate. He therefore decided to shut it down in 2003. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Ultimately, the following year he decided to create a new online encyclopedia to address Nupedia\u2019s shortcomings, make it more accurate, and offer a better service. He persuaded a number of businesspeople <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">to join his project, most notably Larry Sanger, who was enthusiastic about launching Wikipedia. The partners all chose Jimmy Wales to be responsible for <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">promoting the project and acting as its spokesperson. Within a few years, Wikipedia had grown, and its content was available in more than twenty languages, benefiting as many <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">As many people around the world as possible, and in record time, Wikipedia achieved global recognition and became the most important and best-known encyclopedia on the<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0646\u062a\u0631\u0646\u062a<span dir=\"LTR\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">In 2017, Wales announced that he was preparing to launch a new website called Wikitribune, with the aim of combating fake news through a team of<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> professional journalists and volunteer contributors. Wales described it as a site that brings the people\u2019s news to the people. Journalists and professionals will, together with citizens,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> write <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">stories, report and edit the news, and verify its accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Jimmy Wales received many awards and honors in recognition of his efforts to promote culture and awareness. In 2010, he received the annual Nokia Foundation Award for Innovation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">2009. He also received the UNESCO Bor Medal in 2013 and honorary doctorates from Maastricht University in 2015 and the University of Leuven in <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0639\u0627\u0645 2016.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u064a\u0639\u062a\u0628\u0631 \u062c\u064a\u0645\u064a \u0648\u064a\u0644\u0632 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0634\u0647\u0631 \u0631\u062c\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0646\u062a\u0631\u0646\u062a\u060c \u0634\u0627\u0631\u0643 \u0641\u064a \u062a\u0623\u0633\u064a\u0633 \u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u064a\u0643\u064a\u0628\u064a\u062f\u064a\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u064a\u0639\u062f \u0623\u0643\u0628\u0631\u00a0 \u0645\u0648\u0633\u0648\u0639\u0629 \u0625\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0629 \u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0631\u0628\u062d\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0629.\u00a0<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[2648,2027,18606,2612,18608,18609,15126,18607],"class_list":["post-18448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-2648","tag-2027","tag-18606","tag-2612","tag-18608","tag-18609","tag-15126","tag-18607"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}