2015.05.24 互联网企业家吉米-威尔士

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales.

He is best known as the co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama and was the eldest child of a grocery store manager and his wife who ran a primary school where Jimmy and his siblings were educated. After acquiring a degree in finance and working as a trader in Chicago, his first serious foray into the online world was with the web portal Bomis, before branching out with a project called Nupedia, an online encyclopedia with entries written by scholars and published after undergoing peer review.

Wikipedia launched in 2001 and now exists in 287 languages and is the 7th most accessed website in the world with over 20 billion page views per month. It can be edited by anyone though relies on a core of around 5,000 volunteers who are responsible for the majority of the content. It is Jimmy's aim to create "a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge."



克斯蒂-杨的弃儿是互联网企业家吉米-威尔士。

他最出名的是自由在线百科全书维基百科的共同创始人。他在阿拉巴马州的亨茨维尔长大，是一个杂货店经理和他的妻子的长子，他的妻子经营着一所小学，吉米和他的兄弟姐妹们在那里接受教育。在获得金融学位并在芝加哥担任交易员之后，他第一次认真地涉足网络世界是在门户网站Bomis，之后又在一个名为Nupedia的项目上有所突破，这是一个在线百科全书，其条目由学者撰写并在经过同行审查后出版。

维基百科于2001年推出，现在有287种语言，是世界上访问量第七大的网站，每月有超过200亿的页面浏览量。任何人都可以对其进行编辑，但它依赖于一个由大约5000名志愿者组成的核心，他们负责大部分的内容。吉米的目标是创造 "一个地球上每个人都能免费获得所有人类知识的世界"。