Jimmy Wales the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the non-profit charitable organization that he helped establish to operate Wikipedia, holding its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a for-profit wiki hosting service. His role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopedia, prompted "Time" magazine to name him in their 2006 list of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, shortly before midnight on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as August 8. His father, Jimmy, worked as a grocery store manager, while his
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