ဂျင်မီဝေးလ်စ်

**ဂျင်မီဒေါ်နာ "ဂျင်ဘို" ဝေးလ်စ်** (၇ ဩဂုတ် ၁၉၆၆  ၎င်းသည် ဝီကီမီဒီယာရန်ပုံငွေအဖွဲ့၏ ဘုတ်အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဖြစ်ပြီး ဘုတ်အဖွဲ့မှ ခန့်အပ်သည့် "အဖွဲ့အစည်းထူထောင်သူ" နေရာကို ရရှိထားသည်။  ၂၀၀၄ ခုနှစ်တွင် ၎င်းသည် အိန်ဂျယ်လာ ဘီးစ်လီ ဝီကီပီးဒီးယားအား လူသိများလာသည့်အလျောက် ဂျင်မီဝေးလ်စ်သည် အစီအစဉ်အား တွန်းအားပေးသူနှင့် ပြောခွင့်ရပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ဖြစ်လာသည်။  လူအများက ဂျင်မီဝေးလ်စ်အား ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား၏ တွဲဖက်ထူထောင်သူဟု ကိုးကားဖော်ပြကြသော်လည်း ၎င်းကမူ မိမိသာလျှင် တစ်ဦးတည်းသော ထူထောင်သူဟု ဆိုသည်။  ဂျင်မီဝေးလ်စ်သည် လက်တွေ့တွင် ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်ဖြစ်သည်။ 

## ငယ်စဉ်ဘဝနှင့် ပညာရေး 
ဝေးလ်စ် ကို အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၊ အလာဘားမားပြည်နယ်၊ ဟန့်စ်ဗီးလ်မြို့ တွင် မွေးဖွားခဲ့သည်။  သို့သော် သူ၏ ယာဉ်မောင်းလိုင်စင် မှတ်ပုံတင်ကဒ် ပေါ်တွင်မူ သူ၏ မွေးရက်မှာ ၁၉၆၆ ခုနှစ်၊ ဩဂုတ်လ (၈) ရက် ဖြစ်နေရာ ကွဲလွဲချက် ရှိနေသည်။  သူ၏ ဖခင် ဖြစ်သူ ဂျင်မီ (Jimmy)မှာ ဟင်းသီးဟင်းအရွက်ကုန်စုံဆိုင်မှ မန်နေဂျာ တစ်ယောက် ဖြစ်ပြီး၊ သူ့မခင်ဖြစ်သူ ဒေါရစ် (Doris) နှင့် အဘွားဖြစ်သူ အာရ်မာ (Erma) တို့သည် ကိုယ်ပိုင်ကျောင်း ဖွင့်လှစ်ထားသည်။ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ကျောင်း ဆိုသော်လည်း စာသင်ခန်းတစ်ခန်းတည်းသာရှိသော အိမ်ကျောင်းငယ်ကလေးတစ်ခုမျှသာ ဖြစ်သည်။ ဝေးလ်စ် သည် ယင်းကျောင်းလေးမှာပင် ငယ်စဉ်ဘဝ ပညာသင်ယူခဲ့သည်။ 

(၈)တန်း အောင်ပြီးသောအခါ ဝေးလ်စ် သည် ဟန့်စဗီးလ်မြို့ ရှိ တက္ကသိုလ်အကြိုကျောင်း ဖြစ်သော ရန်းဒေါ့လ်ဖ်ကျောင်း (Randolph School) သို့ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့သည်။   Wales has 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." During this time, one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of the web portal Bomis For a time the company sold erotic photographs, and Wales described the site as a "guy-oriented search engine" with a similar market to *Maxim*. Bomis did not become successful, but in March 2000 hosted and provided the initial funding for the Nupedia project. After Sanger publicly proposed on January 10, 2001, the idea of using a wiki to create an encyclopedia, Wales installed wiki software on a server and authorized Sanger to pursue the project under his supervision. Sanger dubbed the project "Wikipedia" and, with Wales, laid down the founding principles and content, establishing an Internet-based community of contributors during that year. Wikipedia was initially intended to be a wiki-based site for collaboration on early encyclopedic content for submission to Nupedia, but Wikipedia's rapid growth quickly overshadowed Nupedia's development. Sanger worked on and promoted both the Nupedia and Wikipedia projects until Bomis discontinued funding for his position in February 2002; Sanger resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and as "chief organizer" of Wikipedia on March 1. Wales has said that he initially was so worried with the concept that he would wake up in the middle of the night, wanting to check the site for vandalism. In the early years, Wales supplied the financial backing for the project.

### ဝီကီမီဒီယာရန်ပုံငွေအဖွဲ့ 
In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), a non-profit organization founded in St. Petersburg, Florida, and now based in San Francisco, California. Originally chairman of the foundation, Wales has held the honorary title of Chairman Emeritus since 2006. He is now one of eight directors who make up its Board of Trustees. The work he carries out for the foundation has always been unpaid, including his appearances to promote the organization at computer and educational conferences.

In March 2008, Wales was accused by former Wikimedia Foundation employee Danny Wool of subsidizing personal expenditures with foundation funds. Wool also stated that Wales had his Wikimedia credit card taken away in part because of his spending habits, though Wales denied this claim. Foundation Chair Florence Devouard and former foundation interim Executive Director Brad Patrick denied any wrongdoing by Wales or the foundation, saying that Wales accounted for every expense and that, for items for which he lacked receipts, he paid out of his own pocket.

### ဝီကီယာ 
In 2004, Wales and then-fellow member of the WMF Board of Trustees Angela Beesley founded the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. Its most popular wikis include Memory Alpha (devoted to *Star Trek*), WoWWiki (*World of Warcraft*) and Wookieepedia (*Star Wars*). Another service offered by Wikia is an open source web search engine named Wikia Search, intended to challenge Google and introduce transparency and public dialogue about how it's created into the search engine's operations. Wales stepped down as Wikia CEO to be replaced by angel investor Gil Penchina, a former vice president and general manager at eBay, on June 5, 2006.

## Biographical and Wikipedia issues 
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### Roles of Wikipedia creators 
Wales has asserted that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia and has publicly disputed Larry Sanger's designation as a co-founder of Wikipedia, describing the claim as "preposterous" to *The Boston Globe* in 2006 and calling "the whole debate silly" in an April 2009 interview. Sanger was identified as co-founder at least as early as September 2001 by *The New York Times* and was referred to as a founder alongside Wales in Wikipedia's first press release in January 2002. In August of that year, Wales identified himself as "co-founder" of Wikipedia. In addition to developing Wikipedia in its early phase and guiding the project, In response to Wales' view, Sanger posted on his personal webpage many links which appear to confirm his role in founding Wikipedia, all of which described Wales and Sanger as the co-founders. In a discussion in March 2007 with Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, Wales said: "When you write this up please do not uncritically repeat Sanger's absurd claim to be the co-founder of Wikipedia." He added: "I am not bent out of shape about it. The facts are on my side, which is why I bother so little about it." Wales' role in the Wikipedia community has been described as benevolent dictator, constitutional monarch and spiritual leader.

### Wikipedia biography 
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In late 2005, Wales edited his own biographical entry on the English Wikipedia. Writer Rogers Cadenhead drew attention to logs showing that in his edits to the page, Wales had removed references to Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia. Sanger commented that "having seen edits like this, it does seem that Jimmy is attempting to rewrite history. But this is a futile process because in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication, the truth will out." Wales was also observed to have modified references to Bomis in a way that was characterized as downplaying the sexual nature of some of his former company's products. In both cases, Wales argued that his modifications were solely intended to improve the accuracy of the content. Late in March 1997, Wales married his second wife, Christine, in Monroe County, Florida. They have a daughter named Kira and are separated. , Wales resided in the St. Petersburg, Florida, area.

Wales had a brief relationship with Canadian conservative columnist Rachel Marsden in 2008 that began after Marsden contacted Wales about her Wikipedia biography. After accusations that Wales' relationship constituted a conflict of interest, Wales announced in March 2008 on his Wikipedia user page (and later on his personal blog) that there had been a relationship but that it was over and claimed that it had not influenced any matters on Wikipedia. Marsden claimed to have learned about the breakup by reading about it on Wikipedia.

### Philosophy 
Wales is a self-avowed "Objectivist to the core", and named his daughter Kira after the heroine in Ayn Rand's debut novel *We the Living*, He ran an electronic mailing list on "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy". When asked about Rand by Brian Lamb in his appearance on C-SPAN's *Q&A* in September 2005, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a libertarian, qualifying his remark by referring to the United States Libertarian Party as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles.
* 2006 — Wales joins the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Creative Commons.
* May 8, 2006 — Wales is listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the 100 influential people special edition of *Time* magazine.
* May 3, 2006 — The Electronic Frontier Foundation awards him a Pioneer Award.
* 2006 — Wales is appointed to the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.
* January 23, 2007 — *Forbes* magazine ranks Wales twelfth in its first annual "The Web Celebs 25".
* 2007 — Wales is recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of the 'Young Global Leaders' of 2007.
* 2008 — CORUM awards him The Global Brand Icon of the Year Award for 2008.
* 2008 — Wales - representing Wikipedia - receives the Quadriga award of Werkstatt Deutschland for *A Mission of Enlightenment* representing the Wikimedia-project along with Boris Tadić, Eckart Höfling and Peter Gabriel. The award was presented by David Weinberger.
* October 30, 2008 — Wales is awarded the Business Process Award at the 7th Annual Innovation Awards and Summit by *The Economist* "for public collaboration as a form of product and content development."

## Published work 
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## ကျမ်းကိုး 
## ပြင်ပလင့်ခ်များ 
* Jimmy Wales , Wales' official blog
* User:Jimbo Wales, Wales' profile at the English Wikipedia

* Audio of interview with Wales about wikipedia on EconTalk podcast