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Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales had even greater ambitions than previous encyclopedists. He
wanted not only to build a comprehensive reference work but also to make it freely available to as many people as possible. The Internet and World Wide Web were key to Wales’s vision, since a free Web-based encyclopedia would be usable by anyone with Internet access