As well as being a technology visionary and a pioneer of «wikis» (a set of web pages designed to allow anyone to contribute and change content), he is best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, an international, free-content Internet encyclopaedia, and of the Wikimedia Foundation. He is also the founder of WikiTribune, a revolutionary ad-free news platform that produces fact-based journalism, and co-founder of Wikia, a free private web hosting service that he created in 2004. His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopaedia, led to him being named by Time magazine as one of the «100 Most Influential People» in 2006, in the «Scientists and Thinkers» category.