Jimmy Wales expect from the Wikipedia initiative. Many of the early contributors to the site were familiar with the model of the free culture movement, and, like Wales, many of them sympathized with the open-source movement. Wales has said that he was initially so worried about the concept of open editing, where the encyclopedia, that he would awaken during the night and monitor what was being added. Nonetheless, the cadre of early editors helped create a robust, self-regulating community that has proven conducive to the growth of the project. In a talk at SXSW in 2016, he recalled that he wrote the
Jimmy Wong to create the web series District Voices. In 2014, Wong was ranked #73 on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels. In August 2018, it was announced that Jimmy Wong had been cast as Ling in Disney's "live action remake" of "the 1998 Mulan animated movie", set to be released in 2020. Wong is an avid player of "", specifically the Commander format. He hosts a podcast with co-host Josh Lee Kwai called "The Command Zone", where he and Josh discuss their experiences playing the Commander format. Wong is referred to by his co-host as "Jimmy the Red" due to the