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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />The Wizard Of [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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By PATRICK SEITZ, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 02:06 PM ET A fascination with the Internet led Jimmy Wales, a futures and options trader, to become a dot-com entrepreneur in the mid-1990s. When his first two tries at Internet ventures failed, ...

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Nupedia struggled to produce articles because of its onerous peer-review process. When Nupedia Editor-In-Chief Larry Sanger suggested to Wales that the venture try a new technology called wiki for collaboratively creating websites, he jumped at the opportunity.

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