Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker , is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, where he attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school. Later, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance from Auburn University and the University of Alabama respectively. While in graduate school, Wales taught at two universities; however, he departed before completing a PhD to take a job in finance and later worked as the Research Director
Dave Shea (web designer) Dave Shea (web designer) Dave Shea is a Canadian web designer and co-author of "The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web". He is known for his work in web-standard development—from his design community project CSS Zen Garden to his active contributions at the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Shea is also a writer “for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular blog, Mezzoblue” and is the founder and creative director of Bright Creative in Vancouver, BC. Along with co-authoring his own book with Molly E. Holzschlag, Shea has contributed to online magazines "Digital