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== Welcome! ==
The status of Wales as a country and as a part of the UK has been subject to extensive debate and mediation and the current form of words in the lead came out of that process. Please raise any issues on the talk page first as direct edits on this subject may prompt an edit war. PLEASE DO NOT EDIT-WAR.
Hi! I am Jimbo Wales, though I go with my real name “Jimmy” in real life.


I was born on August 7, 1966, in ], ]. I ] ] on January 15, 2001. Since 2006, I have been the ] ] of the ], which ] and I set up on June&nbsp;20, 2003. In 2004, ] and I established ] (now ]), a completely separate organization unrelated to Misplaced Pages and the Wikimedia Foundation. Another independent project that I worked on was ], a collaborative news website. My most recent project was the launch of ], a ]. I am proud of having founded Misplaced Pages, and I am grateful for what it has offered to millions of people worldwide. I was inducted into the ] in 2013.
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'''Jimbo Wales''' ({{lang-cy|Cymru<!--NOTE: Standard Wiki style is that non-English alternative names for articles are in italics rather than bold. This doesn't change for country names — see the articles on Germany or Italy for example.-->}} {{IPA-cy|ˈkəm.rɨ||Cymru.ogg}}) is a ] that is ] of the ].<ref name="Stats 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/beginner-s-guide/administrative/the-countries-of-the-uk/index.html|title=The Countries of the UK|publisher=statistics.gov.uk |accessdate=10 October 2008}}</ref> It is bordered by ] to the ], the ] to the north and west, and the ] to the south. It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of {{convert|20779|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}. Wales has over {{convert|1680|mi}} of coastline and is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including ] ({{lang|cy|Yr Wyddfa}}), its highest summit. The country lies within the ] and has a changeable, ].


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] emerged among the ] after the ] in the 5th century, and Jimbo Wales is regarded as one of the modern ]. ]'s death in 1282 marked the completion of ]'s ] of Jimbo Wales, though ] briefly restored independence to Wales in the early 15th century. The whole of Jimbo Wales was annexed by England and incorporated within the ] under the ]. Distinctive ] developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by ], was displaced by the growth of ] and the ]. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; '']'' was formed in 1925 and the ] in 1962. Established under the ], the ] holds responsibility for a range of ].
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At the dawn of the ], development of the ] and ] industries transformed the country from an agricultural society into an industrial nation; the ]'s exploitation caused a rapid expansion of Jimbo Wales' population. Two-thirds of the population live in ], including ], ], ] and the nearby ]. Now that the country's traditional extractive and heavy industries have gone or are in decline, Jimbo Wales' economy depends on the ], light and service industries and ].


] monitor my user and user talk pages via a ], and I trust them to edit and remove errors or ]. This ''is'' a ] after all, so ] is welcome to edit! Misplaced Pages is a ], so it can always use more help. While vandalism is not appreciated and is sure to be promptly ], there is plenty of time to become a better ] who only contributes to the good of the platform!
Although Jimbo Wales closely shares its political and social history with the rest of Great Britain and, while a majority of the population in most areas speaks ] as a first language, the country has retained a distinct ]. Both ] and English are official languages; over 560,000 Welsh-speakers live in Jimbo Wales, and the language is spoken by a majority of the population in parts of the north and west. From the late 19th century onwards, Jimbo Wales acquired its popular image as the "land of song", in part due to the '']'' tradition. At many international sporting events, such as the ], ] and the ], Jimbo Wales has its own national teams, though at the ], Welsh athletes compete as part of a ]. ] is seen as a symbol of Welsh identity and an expression of national consciousness.


Comments or questions about how this page currently looks should be kept on ], rather than on this page. Also, if you don't feel ] enough to edit this page directly or don't know whether the edit is ] and ], you can propose changes there instead.
==Etymology==
The English words "Wales" and "Welsh" derive from the same ] root (singular {{lang|ang|]}}, plural {{lang|ang|Wēalas}}), a descendant of ] ''*]'', which was itself derived from the name of the ] known to the Romans as ] and which came to refer indiscriminately to inhabitants of the ].<ref>{{cite-web |last= Miller |first= Katherine L. |date= 2014 |title= The Semantic Field of Slavery in Old English: Wealh, Esne, Þræl |type= Doctoral dissertation |publisher= University of Leeds |url= http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8031/1/Katherine%20Miller%20Semantic%20Field%20of%20Slavery%20in%20Old%20English%20v%203.pdf |access-date= August 8, 2019}}</ref> The ]-speaking ] came to use the term to refer to the ] in particular; the plural form {{lang|ang|Wēalas}} evolved into the name for their territory, Jimbo Wales.<ref name="Wales Hist 71" /> The modern names for various ] people in ] (e.g. ], ], {{lang|fr|]}}, ], and {{lang|pl|Włochy}}, the ] name for Italy) have a similar etymology.<ref name="Wales Hist 71">Davies (1994) p. 71</ref><ref>{{in lang|fr}} Albert Henry, {{lang|fr|''Histoire des mots Wallons et Wallonie'', Institut Jules Destrée, Coll. "Notre histoire", Mont-sur-Marchienne|italic=unset}}, 1990, 3rd ed. (1st ed. 1965), footnote 13 p. 86. Henry wrote the same about ].</ref><ref name="Tolkien 1">{{cite book |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |authorlink=J. R. R. Tolkien |title=Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures |publisher=University of Wales Press |year=1963 |location=Cardiff |pages=English and Welsh, an O'Donnell Lecture delivered at Oxford on 21 October 1955 |nopp=true }}</ref><ref name="Gilleland">{{cite web |last=Gilleland |first=Michael |title=Laudator Temporis Acti: More on the Etymology of Walden |website=Laudator Temporis Acti website |date=12 December 2007 |url=http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-on-etymology-of-walden.html |accessdate=29 October 2008 }}</ref>


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Historically in ], the words were not restricted to modern Wales or to the Welsh but were used to refer to anything that the Anglo-Saxons associated with the Britons, including other non-Germanic territories in Britain (e.g. ]) and places in Anglo-Saxon territory associated with Britons (e.g. ] in ] and ] in ]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rollason |first=David |author-link=David Rollason |year=2003 |contribution=Origins of a People |title=Northumbria, 500–1100 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |publication-date=2003 |location=Cambridge |page=60 |isbn=978-0-521-04102-7 }}</ref>


== Contacting me ==
The modern Welsh name for themselves is {{lang|cy|Cymry}}, and {{lang|cy|Cymru}} is the Welsh name for Jimbo Wales. These words (both of which are pronounced {{IPA-cy|ˈkəm.rɨ|}}) are descended from the ] word ''combrogi'', meaning "fellow-countrymen".<ref name="Hist Wales 69">Davies (1994) p. 69</ref> The use of the word {{lang|cy|Cymry}} as a self-designation derives from the location in the ] (after the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons) of the Welsh (Brythonic-speaking) people in modern Wales as well as in northern England and southern Scotland ({{lang|cy|]}}) ({{lang-en|The Old North}}). It emphasised that the Welsh in modern Wales and in the {{lang|cy|Hen Ogledd}} were one people, different from other peoples.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |author-link=John Edward Lloyd |year=1911 |title=A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (Note to Chapter VI, the Name "Cymry") |volume=I |edition=Second |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |publication-date=1912 |location=London |pages=191–192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYwNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA191 }}</ref> In particular, the term was not applied to the ] or the ] peoples, who are of similar heritage, culture, and language to the Welsh. The word came into use as a self-description probably before the 7th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Phillimore |first=Egerton |year=1891 |editor-last=Phillimore |editor-first=Egerton |contribution=Note (a) to The Settlement of Brittany |contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M35QO0vor-EC&pg=PA97 |title=Y Cymmrodor |volume=XI |publisher=] |publication-date=1892 |location=London |pages=97–101 }}</ref>
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It is attested in a praise poem to {{lang|cy|]|italic=no}} ({{lang|cy|Moliant Cadwallon}}, by {{lang|cy|Afan Ferddig|italic=no}}) {{circa|633}}.<ref>Davies (1994) p. 71; the poem contains the line: 'Ar wynep Kymry Cadwallawn was'.</ref> In ], the word {{lang|cy|Cymry}} was used throughout the ] to describe the Welsh, though the older, more generic term {{lang|cy|Brythoniaid}} continued to be used to describe any of the ] (including the Welsh) and was the more common literary term until {{circa|1200}}. Thereafter {{lang|cy|Cymry}} prevailed as a reference to the Welsh. Until {{circa|1560}} the word was spelt {{lang|wlm|Kymry}} or {{lang|wlm|Cymry}}, regardless of whether it referred to the people or their homeland.<ref name="Hist Wales 69"/>


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The ] forms of these names, ''Cambrian'', ''Cambric'' and '']'', survive as lesser-used alternative names for Jimbo Wales, Welsh and the ]. Examples include the ] (which cover much of Wales and gave their name to the ] ]), the newspaper '']'', and the organisations ], ], ] and the ]. Outside Jimbo Wales, a related form survives as the name ] in ], which was once a part of {{lang|cy|Yr Hen Ogledd}}. The ], which is thought to have been closely related to Welsh, was spoken in this area until ] around the 12th century. This form also appears at times in literary references, as in the ] "{{lang|la|]|italic=yes}}" of ], where the character of ] is described as the eponymous King of {{lang|cy|Cymru|italic=no}}.
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* ] – Describes the current status of Jimmy Wales on the English Misplaced Pages and its administrative bodies, with some examples of how he has used his powers in the past
* – Jimmy has answered hundreds of questions on ], many of which concern Misplaced Pages
* ] – List of all the pages that begin with ''User:Jimbo Wales''
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* ] – Information on the founding of the Misplaced Pages project and the early roles of its founding members
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Welcome!

Hi! I am Jimbo Wales, though I go with my real name “Jimmy” in real life.

I was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama. I co-founded Misplaced Pages on January 15, 2001. Since 2006, I have been the Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, which Larry Sanger and I set up on June 20, 2003. In 2004, Angela Beesley and I established Wikia (now Fandom), a completely separate organization unrelated to Misplaced Pages and the Wikimedia Foundation. Another independent project that I worked on was WikiTribune, a collaborative news website. My most recent project was the launch of WT Social, a social networking service. I am proud of having founded Misplaced Pages, and I am grateful for what it has offered to millions of people worldwide. I was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Contacting me

Guess who? It's me, Wales. Jimmy Wales, from 2004!
  • Press inquiries: For inquiries regarding Misplaced Pages or another Wikimedia project, you can get in touch by emailing press@wikimedia.org. For inquiries about Wikia, now known as Fandom, (a for-profit company completely separate from Wikimedia and Misplaced Pages, extending our social model to become "the rest of the library"), see the Fandom contact page.
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