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  "ar": "جاود كريم (وُلد 28 أكتوبر 1979) مهندس برمجيات ورجل أعمال ألماني أمريكي من أصل بنغلاديشي، شارك في تأسيس يوتيوب سنة 2005 وكان أول من رفع مقطع فيديو عليه («أنا في حديقة الحيوان»). وُلد في ميرزه بورغ بألمانيا الشرقية لأب بنغلاديشي وأم ألمانية، وعمل قبل يوتيوب في باي بال حيث صمم أجزاء من نظامها لمكافحة الاحتيال.",
  "en": "Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi descent, a co-founder of YouTube in 2005 and the first person to upload a video to it ('Me at the zoo'). Born in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother, he worked at PayPal before YouTube, where he designed core components including its real-time anti-fraud system.",
  "ur": "جاوید کریم (پیدائش 28 اکتوبر 1979ء) جرمن و امریکی سافٹ ویئر انجینئر اور انٹرنیٹ کاروباری شخصیت ہیں، جو بنگلہ دیشی نژاد ہیں؛ وہ 2005ء میں یوٹیوب کے شریک بانی اور اس پر پہلی ویڈیو اپ لوڈ کرنے والے شخص تھے۔ وہ مشرقی جرمنی کے شہر مرسبرگ میں بنگلہ دیشی والد اور جرمن والدہ کے ہاں پیدا ہوئے اور یوٹیوب سے قبل پے پال میں کام کرتے تھے۔"
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   "note": "Born at Merseburg, East Germany (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany), on 28 October 1979; the English article and Wikidata agree. The Hijri year (1399) is derived by tabular conversion. No born_in relation is written: Merseburg has no museum place entity.",
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     "heading": "يوتيوب",
     "markdown": "عمل كريم في باي بال، حيث صمم مكوّنات أساسية منها نظامها الآني لمكافحة الاحتيال، وهناك تعرّف على شريكيه اللاحقين ستيف تشين وتشاد هيرلي. وفي سنة 2005 شارك في تأسيس يوتيوب، وفي 23 أبريل 2005 رفع أول مقطع فيديو على المنصة بعنوان «أنا في حديقة الحيوان» (Me at the zoo)، الذي تجاوزت مشاهداته مئات الملايين. درس علوم الحاسوب في جامعة إلينوي ثم نال الماجستير من ستانفورد. {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-en} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ur}"
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    {
     "heading": "الدين",
     "markdown": "إيمانه مسجل «غير معروف» على قاعدة الغياب: فلا نص المقالات في الطبعات الإنجليزية والعربية والأردية يسمي له دينًا أو انتماء، ولا يحمل صندوق معلوماته حقلًا للدين، ولا يحمل عنصره في ويكي بيانات أي قيمة للدين أصلًا. وأصل أبيه البنغلاديشي واسم أسرته خلفية عائلية لا تُحسب شهادة، فلا قيمة تُسجل. {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-en} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ar} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ur} {cite:wikidata-jawed-karim}"
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     "heading": "YouTube",
     "markdown": "Karim worked at PayPal, where he designed core components including its real-time anti-fraud system, and there met his later co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. In 2005 he co-founded YouTube, and on 23 April 2005 he uploaded the platform's first video, \"Me at the zoo\", which has since been viewed hundreds of millions of times. He studied computer science at the University of Illinois and took a master's degree at Stanford. {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-en} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ur}"
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     "heading": "Religion",
     "markdown": "His faith is recorded as unknown, in the absence configuration: no article text in the English, Arabic or Urdu edition names any religion or affiliation for him, no infobox carries a religion field, and his Wikidata item carries no religion claim at all. His father's Bangladeshi origin and his family name are family background, never attestations, so no value is recorded. {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-en} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ar} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ur} {cite:wikidata-jawed-karim}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "یوٹیوب",
     "markdown": "کریم نے پے پال میں کام کیا، جہاں انہوں نے اس کے بنیادی اجزا بشمول فوری دھوکا دہی مخالف نظام ڈیزائن کیا، اور وہیں ان کی ملاقات اپنے بعد کے شریک بانیوں اسٹیو چن اور چاڈ ہرلی سے ہوئی۔ 2005ء میں انہوں نے یوٹیوب کی شراکت سے بنیاد رکھی اور 23 اپریل 2005ء کو پلیٹ فارم کی پہلی ویڈیو «Me at the zoo» اپ لوڈ کی، جسے اب تک کروڑوں بار دیکھا جا چکا ہے۔ انہوں نے یونیورسٹی آف الینوائے سے کمپیوٹر سائنس پڑھی اور اسٹینفورڈ سے ماسٹرز کی ڈگری حاصل کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-en} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہب",
     "markdown": "ان کا ایمان «نامعلوم» درج ہے، عدم موجودگی کی صورت میں: انگریزی، عربی اور اردو تینوں مضامین کے متن میں ان کے کسی مذہب یا وابستگی کا ذکر نہیں، معلومات خانے میں مذہب کا کوئی خانہ نہیں، اور ویکیمیڈیا ڈیٹا کے ان کے آئٹم میں مذہب کی کوئی قدر موجود ہی نہیں۔ ان کے والد کا بنگلہ دیشی پس منظر اور خاندانی نام خاندانی پس منظر ہے، شہادت نہیں، اس لیے کوئی قدر درج نہیں کی گئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-en} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ar} {cite:wikipedia-jawed-karim-ur} {cite:wikidata-jawed-karim}"
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