Still working to recover. Please don't edit quite yet.

Wikipedia

From Anarchopedia
Revision as of 02:16, 2 August 2008 by Weapon (Talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia founded by American pornography entrepreneur and options trader Jimmy Wales and American philosophy professor Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001. It is controlled by the Wikimedia foundation, an organization based in the United States.

Is wikipedia "free"?

It receives support from Bomis Inc. in the form of free bandwidth and this connection with a for-profit corporation is seen as a burden affecting the functioning of Wikipedia as a free encyclopedia as it claims to be. Although it has editions in 250 languages, only 130 have more than 1000 articles.[1] After about four years from the date of its foundation, Wikipedia had about 450,000 articles,[2] and after six years it had about 1.7 million entries.[3]

References

  1. List of Wikipedias - Wikimedia, accessed August 1, 2008.
  2. Aaron Weiss, The Unassociated Press, N.Y. Times, Feb. 10, 2005, at G5.
  3. English Wikipedia statistics accessed August 1, 2008

External links