# Jimmy Wales (slim)

> Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia REST API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder, Wikimedia Foundation.

Jimmy Wales established the Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects.

## What Jimmy builds

- [Wikimedia REST API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia.md), graded B, 66.6/100, in Data providers. Keyless REST API for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, with page content, search and full revision history. Founder, Wikimedia Foundation, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Halley Coplin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/halley-coplin/), Senior Product Manager, MediaWiki API Platform

## Questions

### Who is Jimmy Wales?

Jimmy Wales established the Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects.

### What does Wikimedia Foundation make?

Anchor Terminal lists Wikimedia REST API from Wikimedia Foundation.

### How are Jimmy's tools graded?

Wikimedia REST API is graded B, 66.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Artifacts/PP3.5:_vNext_APIs
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/halleyco/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/halleyco
- https://wikimediafoundation.org/
- https://wikimediafoundation.org
- https://x.com/Wikimedia
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs
- https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia
- https://wikimediafoundation.org/contact/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.