Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia - the word!
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encylopedia Wikipedia, shares his thoughts on the power of one incredibly successful neologism - that amazing name! Wikipedia is a name he’s “stuck with” — in a good way, of course!
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to listen. (2:13 minutes) And hear what else “Jimbo” had to say that day, to the Chronicle of Higher Education!
Neologisms Series Table of Contents
- Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms
- Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms
- In Search of Neologisms
- More Neologisms from the World of the Web
- Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia - the word!
- Tim Wu’s neologism: Network neutrality!
- Ethan Zuckerman’s homage to homophily
- To friend or not to friend: Judith Donath on online social status




