Wales has beenmarried three times. He also has three children.[6][7] When he was 20, Wales married Pam.[7] Pam was a worker at a store inAlabama.[7] He met his second wife, Christine Rohan, through a friend inChicago.[6] They had a daughter before their marriage ended. Wales moved toSan Diego in 1998.
In 2002, he moved again toFlorida.[8] In 2007, he still lived there.[9] As of 2012 he lives inLondon,England.[10] In 2012, Wales marriedKate Garvey, a government worker forTony Blair.[11] Wales has three daughters: one with Rohan and two with Garvey.[12]
Wales says that he follows the ideas ofObjectivism. He also says that he is alibertarian to some extent, meaning that he thinks people should be allowed to do whatever they want so long as they do not hurt others.
On January 15, 2001, withLarry Sanger and others, Wales started Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free,open content encyclopedia. It grew and became popular very quickly. As Wikipedia became known to the public, he became the project’s promoter andspokesperson. He is often called a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has argued against the "co-" part. He said he was the only founder.[13][14]
↑Jaffé-Pearce, Michèle (March 12, 2017)."A life in the day: Jimmy Wales".The Sunday Times.ISSN0956-1382. RetrievedJune 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.
↑Bergstein, Brian (March 25, 2007)."Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia".MSNBC. Associated Press. RetrievedMarch 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.
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