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Jimmy Wales, 55, is an internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Wikipedia, the nonprofit online encyclopedia launched in 2001 that relies on user donations. He also is founder of Fandom, a for-profit web-hosting company. He spoke with Marc Myers.
Back in the days when you bought things from strangers at your front door, my mother invested in a children’s World Book Encyclopedia. I was 3.
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