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Jimbo, King of the wiki people
If technology is responsible for leveling the playing field in everything from business and society to the marketplace of ideas, then Jimmy Wales is one of the movement’s most ardent groundskeepers.
The founder of Wikipedia and the well-traveled face of its for-profit counterpart Wikia, was raised in Huntsville, Ala., by a grocery store owner and schoolteacher. ...
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