The logo was used for the whole day on the sidebar of English Wikipedia. It used a special logo (pictured) to celebrate its 10 years since it opened on January 15, 2001. On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary. īy November 2021, Wikipedia had fallen to the thirteenth placed website in the world for global internet engagement. MIT Press published an open access book of essays Wikipedia 20: Stories of an Unfinished Revolution, edited by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner with contributions from prominent Wikipedians, Wikimedians, researchers, journalists, librarians and other experts reflecting on particular histories and themes. On 13 January 2021, the English Wikipedia reached one billion edits, where the billionth edit was made by Steven Pruitt. In October 2014, the Wikipedia Monument was unveiled to the public in Poland to honor all the contributors of Wikipedia.Īccording to the TechCrunch website, on 23 January 2020, Wikipedia had surpassed more than 6 million articles on the English Wikipedia. The number of articles and contributors appeared to be growing less quickly around spring 2007. The English Wikipedia reached 3 million articles in August 2009. The English Wikipedia passed the 2 million-article mark on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, even larger than the Yongle Encyclopedia (1407), which had held the record for exactly 600 years. After this, its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. Nupedia and Wikipedia both existed until Nupedia's servers were stopped in 2003. By late 2002 it had 26 languages, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the end of 2004. It grew to about 20,000 articles, and 18 languages by the end of 2001. Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot, and from people who looked it up. Otherwise, there weren't very many rules initially, and Wikipedia operated independently of Nupedia. Wikipedia's policy of "neutral point-of-view" was enforced in its initial months, and was similar to Nupedia's earlier "nonbiased" policy. It was launched as an English-language edition at and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001. On January 10, 2001, Larry Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia. Sanger created the strategy of using a wiki to reach Wales' goal. Wales is credited with defining the goals of the project. Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales are the ones who started Wikipedia.
#Deltagraph wikipedia license#
Nupedia was first licensed under the Nupedia Open Content License which was changed to the GNU Free Documentation License before Wikipedia was founded and made their first article when Richard Stallman requested them. The important people of the company were Jimmy Wales, the person in charge of Bomis, and Larry Sanger, the editor-in-chief of Nupedia. Nupedia's articles were written and owned by Bomis, Inc which was a web portal company. Nupedia was a free English-language online encyclopedia project. Wikipedia began as a related project for Nupedia. Wikipedia originally developed from another online encyclopedia project, Nupedia. The regular English Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia edition. Wikipedia has a standard page layout for all pages in the encyclopedia.Īs of September 2011, Wikipedia had about 18 million pages in about 300 languages and more than 3.50 billion words across all Wikipedias.
#Deltagraph wikipedia software#
It is a wiki that uses the software MediaWiki (like all other Wikimedia Foundation projects).Īnyone who wishes to can change the pages on Wikipedia, or even make new ones. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia became a separate website of its own. Wikipedia was started on January 10, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as part of an earlier online encyclopedia named Nupedia. Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of two words, wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is owned by an American organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, which is in San Francisco, California. This means anyone can copy it, and make changes to it if they follow the rules for copying or editing. People can choose to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects. It is also one of the biggest wiki organizations. People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay.
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