# Jimmy Wales American internet entrepreneur (b. 1966) who co-founded **[[Wikipedia]]** in 2001 and established the nonprofit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] that hosts it. Wales has become a frequent target of the right — especially [[Elon Musk]], who attacks Wikipedia as "woke" and launched [[Grokipedia]] as a competitor. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to support the [[Wikipedia Timeline]]. Expand with the Nupedia origins, the Sanger split, and the Musk-era attacks.