Jimmy Wales (Simple English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Jimmy Wales" in Simple English language version.

Last modified: 09:11:44, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

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britannica.com (Global: 37^th place; Simple English: 16^th place)

"Jimmy Wales | Biography & Wikipedia Founder | Britannica Money". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 13, 2026.

economist.com (Global: 331^st place; Simple English: 199^th place)

"Brain scan: The free-knowledge fundamentalist". Technology Quarterly. June 5, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2008.

forbes.com (Global: 71^st place; Simple English: 58^th place)

Olson, Parmy (October 18, 2006). "A New Kid On The Wiki Block". Forbes. Retrieved March 28, 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

jpost.com (Global: 358^th place; Simple English: 246^th place)

"Jimmy Wales wants Wikipedia to change the world, again". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com.

meta.wikimedia.org (Global: 2,774^th place; Simple English: 417^th place)

"Wikipedia: 50 languages, 1/2 million articles". Wikimedia Foundation Press Release. Wikimedia Foundation. April 25, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2009. "The Wikipedia project was founded in January 2001 by Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger," quoted from the April 25, 2004 first-ever press release issued by the Wikimedia Foundation.
•"Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article". Wikipedia Press Release. Wikipedia. January 21, 2003. Retrieved April 10, 2009.

msn.com (Global: 188^th place; Simple English: 89^th place)

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Bergstein, Brian (March 25, 2007). "Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia". MSNBC. Associated Press. Archived from the original on December 21, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2007. The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim does not seem particularly controversial—Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, is not happy about it.

nwsource.com (Global: 1,828^th place; Simple English: 713^th place)

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"Business & Technology: He's the "God-King," but you can call him Jimbo". seattletimes.nwsource.com. Retrieved May 20, 2010.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; Simple English: 8^th place)

"Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia - New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}

q-and-a.org (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

"Q & A". q-and-a.org. Retrieved May 20, 2010.

telegraph.co.uk (Global: 40^th place; Simple English: 35^th place)

Williams, Christopher (April 25, 2017). "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales exits Guardian board over conflict of interest with Wikitribune news site". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235.
Hough, Stephen (March 11, 2012). "Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia chief to advise Whitehall on policy". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
Donnelly, Laura (October 6, 2012). "Wiki wedding: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales marries Tony Blair's former aide". The Telegraph.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; Simple English: 14^th place)

Garside, Juliette (August 3, 2014). "Jimmy Wales: digital champion of free speech". The Observer. London. Retrieved December 26, 2017.

thetimes.co.uk (Global: 1,280^th place; Simple English: 322^nd place)

Jaffé-Pearce, Michèle (March 12, 2017). "A life in the day: Jimmy Wales". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved June 8, 2018. He lives in west London with his third wife, Kate Garvey, a former aide to Tony Blair, and daughters Ada, 5, and Jemima, 3. Kira, 16, his daughter with his second wife, lives in Florida.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; Simple English: 1^st place)

"Jimmy Wales: Celebrities: Wmagazine.com". wmagazine.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
Bergstein, Brian (March 25, 2007). "Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia". MSNBC. Associated Press. Archived from the original on December 21, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2007. The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim does not seem particularly controversial—Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, is not happy about it.

wmagazine.com (Global: 1,808^th place; Simple English: 1,710^th place)

"Jimmy Wales: Celebrities: Wmagazine.com". wmagazine.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2010.

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; Simple English: 6^th place)

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Williams, Christopher (April 25, 2017). "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales exits Guardian board over conflict of interest with Wikitribune news site". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235.
Jaffé-Pearce, Michèle (March 12, 2017). "A life in the day: Jimmy Wales". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved June 8, 2018. He lives in west London with his third wife, Kate Garvey, a former aide to Tony Blair, and daughters Ada, 5, and Jemima, 3. Kira, 16, his daughter with his second wife, lives in Florida.

Jimmy Wales (Simple English Wikipedia)

britannica.com (Global: 37th place; Simple English: 16th place)

economist.com (Global: 331st place; Simple English: 199th place)

forbes.com (Global: 71st place; Simple English: 58th place)

jpost.com (Global: 358th place; Simple English: 246th place)

meta.wikimedia.org (Global: 2,774th place; Simple English: 417th place)

msn.com (Global: 188th place; Simple English: 89th place)

msnbc.msn.com

nwsource.com (Global: 1,828th place; Simple English: 713th place)