What is Jimmy Wales?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Jimmy Wales | image = Jimmy Wales visited the Youth Affairs Agency. Photo portrait 2024 (cropped 2).jpg | caption = Wales in November 2024 | birth_name = Jimmy Donal Wales | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|8|7}} | birth_place = [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[Alabama]], [[USA]] | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Jimbo (screen name)<ref name=Garside-2014-08-03>{{cite news|work=The Observer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/aug/03/observer-profile-jimmy-wales-wikipedia|title=Jimmy Wales: digital champion of free speech|first=Juliette|last=Garside|location=London|date=August 3, 2014|access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref> | education = {{unbulleted list|[[Auburn University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])|[[University of Alabama|University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa]] ([[Master of Science|MS]])|[[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University, Bloomington]]}} | occupation = [[List of Internet entrepreneurs|Internet entrepreneur]], [[webmaster]], [[Trader (finance)|financial trader]] (formerly) | net_worth = ≈{{US$|1 million|link=no}}<ref name=Garside-2014-08-03/> (2014) | title = {{unbulleted list|President of [[Fandom (website)|Fandom, Inc.]] (2004–present)|Chair of [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (2003–2006)|Chair emeritus of [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (2006–present)}} | successor = [[Florence Devouard]] (as Chair of Wikimedia Foundation) | boards = {{unbulleted list|[[Wikimedia Foundation]]|[[Creative Commons]]|[[Sunlight Foundation]] (advisory board) (until September 2020)|[[MIT Center for Collective Intelligence]] (advisory board)|[[Guardian Media Group]] (until April 2017)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/04/25/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-exits-guardian-board-conflict/|title=Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales exits Guardian board over conflict of intere