Jimmy Donald Wales (Huntsville, USA) is an American internet entrepreneur, best known to the public as the co-founder, in 2001, of the free Wikipedia project. Currently, he is a member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation and is one of the founders of Wikia, a privately owned free website hosting service created in 2004. Along with Larry Sanger, Wales helped popularize the trend in web development that aims to facilitate creativity, education, and free access to human knowledge through shared collaboration among users. With the product of his work with Wikipedia, which became the world's largest encyclopedia, Time magazine listed Wales as one of the most influential people in the world in 2009. In 2009, Wales ranked third on the Agenda Setters 2009 list, where the Silicon.com website selects the 50 most influential individuals in the technology world. That same year he received an award from the Nokia Foundation for his contributions to the evolution of the World Wide Web as a truly democratic and participatory platform. On May 9, 2010, amidst the controversy generated by his involvement in the Commons project regarding the removal of pornographic images, Jimmy Wales relinquished the executive privileges of his Wikipedia founder status, retaining those related to viewing edits, so that the discussion about his status would not interfere with the ongoing debate about editorial content.