Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (1966- ) is a native of Huntsville, Madison County, and a graduate of Auburn University. His online encyclopedia venture is a dominating worldwide presence, with the English-language version containing more than six million entries and receiving more than 250 million page views a day.
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