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| − | In 1996 an American citizen named Jimmy Wales, who made money through bond trading, moved to San Diego, California, to found the Bomis pornography ring.<ref name=WFSDFS>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/17/jimmy_wales_shot_dead_says_wikipedia/ Wikipedia founder 'shot by friend of Siegenthaler'] ''The Register''</ref><ref name=Britannica>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192818/Wikipedia Wikipedia] ''Britannica Online''</ref> In March 2000, Wales founded Nupedia, an English language free content online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia was organized in a manner so that articles were to be written by experts and to be reviewed under a formal process. By January 2001, less than twenty four articles were completed in that project, and Sanger proposed supplementing Nupedia with an open-source encyclopaedia. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but following objections from the advisory board, it was relaunched some days later as an independent website. In its first year, Wikipedia expanded to some 20,000 articles in 18 languages. In 2003 Nupedia was closed down and all its articles were moved into Wikipedia.<ref name=Britannica/> | + | In 1996 an American citizen named Jimmy Wales, who made money through bond trading, moved to San Diego, California, to found the Bomis pornography ring.<ref name=WFSDFS>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/17/jimmy_wales_shot_dead_says_wikipedia/ Wikipedia founder 'shot by friend of Siegenthaler'] ''The Register''</ref><ref name=Britannica>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192818/Wikipedia Wikipedia] ''Britannica Online''</ref> In March 2000, Wales founded Nupedia, an English language free content online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia was organized in a manner so that articles were to be written by experts and to be reviewed under a formal process. By January 2001, less than twenty four articles were completed in that project, and Sanger proposed supplementing Nupedia with an open-source encyclopaedia. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but following objections from the advisory board, it was relaunched some days later as an independent website. In its first year, Wikipedia expanded to some 20,000 articles in 18 languages. In 2003, Nupedia was closed down and all its articles were moved into Wikipedia.<ref name=Britannica/> |
==Is wikipedia free?== | ==Is wikipedia free?== | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 6 August 2008
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia founded on January 15, 2001 by two American citizens, pornography entrepreneur and bond trader Jimmy Wales and philosophy professor Larry Sanger. It is controlled by the United States-based Wikimedia Foundation. 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 2 million entries.[3]
History
In 1996 an American citizen named Jimmy Wales, who made money through bond trading, moved to San Diego, California, to found the Bomis pornography ring.[4][5] In March 2000, Wales founded Nupedia, an English language free content online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia was organized in a manner so that articles were to be written by experts and to be reviewed under a formal process. By January 2001, less than twenty four articles were completed in that project, and Sanger proposed supplementing Nupedia with an open-source encyclopaedia. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but following objections from the advisory board, it was relaunched some days later as an independent website. In its first year, Wikipedia expanded to some 20,000 articles in 18 languages. In 2003, Nupedia was closed down and all its articles were moved into Wikipedia.[5]
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.
References
- ↑ List of Wikipedias - Wikimedia, accessed August 1, 2008.
- ↑ Aaron Weiss, The Unassociated Press, N.Y. Times, Feb. 10, 2005, at G5.
- ↑ English Wikipedia statistics
- ↑ Wikipedia founder 'shot by friend of Siegenthaler' The Register
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wikipedia Britannica Online
External links
- The Wikipedia Review - forums hosting discussions about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects (mainly criticism-oriented)
- Wikipedia Watch .org
- Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits'
