Neutral point of view may refer to:

• Objectivity (science), the concept of a position formed without incorporating one's own prejudice
• Neutrality (philosophy), to maintain neutrality at all times

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Point of view, sometimes used interchangeably with viewpoint, may refer to:

• Point of view (literature) or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the pronoun used in narration
• Point of view (painting), the angle of painter vision
• Point of view shot, a technique in motion photography
  • Point of view pornography, the above technique as used in adult film
• Point of view switch or hat switch, part of a joystick
• Point-of-view gun, a fictional device from the 2005 movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Companies[link]

• Point of View, Inc., a video game developer
• Point of View (computer hardware company), a computer hardware company that produces gaming graphics cards
• Point of View Movie Production Co. Ltd., the production company of Hong Kong filmmaker Dennis Law Sau-Yiu

Art and entertainment[link]

• The Point of View of My Work as an Author, an 1859 philosophical autobiography by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
• "Point of View" (short story), by Isaac Asimov published in 1979
• Point of View (film), a 1965 documentary film
• Point of View (radio show), a conservative talk show hosted by Marlin Maddoux from 1973 to 2003, and now heard as POVe With Kerby Anderson
• Point of View (Cassandra Wilson album), 1986
• Point of View (Spyro Gyra album), 1989
• Points of View (album), an 1998 album by jazz bassist Dave Holland
• Point of View (song), a single by DB Boulevard
• Point of View (sculpture), a public sculpture of George Washington and Guyasuta
• "Point of View" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series
• POV (Point of View), a two part series that ran on Anglia Television in December 2004
• POV (TV series), a PBS television program that features independent nonfiction films
• Points of View, a long running viewer opinion programme in the UK
• Points of View (essay), is the title of an essay by W. Somerset Maugham
• Point of View (video game), a 2001 game, per List of FMV-based games

Places[link]

• Point of View Park, a parklet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
• Pointe of View Winery, a winery in North Dakota, USA

See also[link]

• POV (disambiguation)
• Viewpoint (disambiguation)
• Perspective (disambiguation)

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Jimmy Wales
Wales in December 2008
Born	Jimmy Donal Wales (1966-08-07) August 7, 1966 (age 45) Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Residence	London, United Kingdom[1]
Other names	Jimbo
Alma mater	Auburn University University of Alabama Indiana University Bloomington
Occupation	Internet entrepreneur, formerly a Financial trader
Title	President of Wikia, Inc. (2004–present) Chairman of Wikimedia Foundation (June 2003 – October 2006) Chairman Emeritus, Wikimedia Foundation (October 2006–present)
Successor	Florence Devouard
Board member of	Wikimedia Foundation Creative Commons Socialtext Sunlight Foundation (advisory board) MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (advisory board) CiviliNation[2]
Awards	see below
Signature
Website
www.jimmywales.com

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales ( /ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz/; born August 7, 1966^[3]) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company.^[4][5] Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, where he attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school, then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance. While in graduate school, he taught at two universities, but left before completing a PhD in order to take a job in finance and later worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a male-oriented web portal featuring entertainment and adult content. The company would provide the initial funding for the peer-reviewed free encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003) and its successor, Wikipedia.

On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales launched Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia that enjoyed rapid growth and popularity, and as Wikipedia’s public profile grew, he became the project’s promoter and spokesman. He is historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation, declaring himself the sole founder.^[6][7] Wales serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization he helped establish to operate Wikipedia, holding its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting service. His role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world’s largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world’s most influential people.

Early life and education[link]

Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 7, 1966.^[3][8] His father, Jimmy,^[9] worked as a grocery store manager while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning,^[10] a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales and his three siblings received their early education.^[10][11] As a child, Wales was a keen reader with an acute intellectual curiosity^[5] and, in what he credits to the influence of the Montessori method on the school’s philosophy of education, "spent lots of hours pouring [sic] over the Britannicas and World Book Encyclopedias." There were only four other children in Wales’ grade, so the school grouped together the first through fourth grade students and the fifth through eighth grade students. As an adult, Wales was sharply critical of the government’s treatment of the school, citing the “constant interference and bureaucracy and very sort of snobby inspectors from the state” as a formative influence on his political philosophy.^[12]

After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School,^[13] a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, graduating at sixteen.^[14] Wales said that the school was expensive for his family, but that "education was always a passion in my household... you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life."^[12] He received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Auburn University. Wales then entered the PhD finance program at the University of Alabama before leaving with a master's degree to enter the PhD finance program at Indiana University.^[11][12][14] He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies but did not write the doctoral dissertation required for a PhD, something he ascribed to boredom.^[11][12]

Career[link]

Chicago Options Associates and Bomis[link]

The staff of Wales’ internet company Bomis photographed in Summer 2000. Wales is third from the left in the back row, with his then-wife Christine.

In 1994, Wales took a job with Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago, Illinois.^[12][15][16] Wales has described himself as having been addicted to the Internet from an early stage and he wrote computer codes during his leisure time. During his studies in Alabama, he had become an obsessive player of Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs)—a type of virtual role-playing game—and thereby experienced the potential of computer networks to foster large-scale collaborative projects.^[14][17] Inspired by the remarkable initial public offering of Netscape in 1995, and having accumulated capital through "speculating on interest-rate and foreign-currency fluctuations",^[10] he decided to leave the realm of financial trading and became an Internet entrepreneur.^[14] In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis,^[10][18] a web portal featuring user-generated webrings and, for a time, erotic photographs.^[19] Wales described it as a "guy-oriented search engine" with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine;^[11][12][20] The Bomis venture did not ultimately turn out to be successful, however.^[10][11][21]

Nupedia and the origins of Wikipedia[link]