Wikipedia founder creates on-line source of help for Tampa Bay’s homeless

Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area.

The new site, tampabayhomeless.wikia.com, was introduced after the Hillsborough Homeless Coalition’s annual meeting at Teatro on Seventh, a restaurant on Eighth Avenue.

Coalition CEO Rayme Nuckles said the site would be only the third of its kind in the world. The first two were created in San Francisco, where Wikipedia operations are based, and Los Angeles, Wales said.

Source: St. Petersburg Times

Note: Shirl Kennedy, ResourceShelf senior editor, is a news researcher for the St. Petersburg Times.

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