Internet and technology entrepreneur Jimmy Wales is founder of the online nonprofit encyclopedia Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc., including its entertainment media brand, Fandom powered by Wikia. Wales serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit charitable organization he established to operate Wikipedia. In April 2017, Jimmy launched WikiTribune — a news website involving professional journalists working alongside volunteers to curate fact checked and reliable articles. In 2006, Jimmy was named in Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” for his role in creating Wikipedia.