Wikipedia

Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia

project, Nupedia.

Bomis, Inc which is a web portal company. The main

people of the company were Jimmy Wales, the guy in
A simple video explanation how Wikipedia contributes to free charge of Bomis, and Larry Sanger, the editor-in-chief
for Nupedia. Nupedia was rst licensed under the Nuknowledge
pedia Open Content License which was changed to the
Wikipedia ( pronunciation (info help)) is an Internet GNU Free Documentation License before Wikipedia
[4]
encyclopedia project in many languages. It is free of was founded when Richard Stallman requested them.
charge: users do not pay. But they can choose to donate
to the Wikimedia Foundation to fund Wikipedia and her
sister projects. It is "open content". This means anyone
can copy it, and make changes to it if they follow the rules
for copying or editing.
Wikipedia is owned by an American organization,
Wikimedia Foundation, which is in San Francisco,
California.
Its name is a combination of the two words wiki, a Hawaiian word for quick, and encyclopedia.[3] Because the word
was made by combining parts of those words, it is a
portmanteau.
It was started on January 10, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and
Larry Sanger as part of an earlier Internet encyclopedia
named Nupedia. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia became a separate website of its own. It is a wiki that runs
using the software MediaWiki (like all other Wikimedia
projects).

The Wikipedia Monument, October 2014

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales are the ones who started
Wikipedia.[5][6] Wales is credited with dening the goals
of the project.[7][8] Sanger created the strategy of using a
wiki to reach Wales goal.[9] On January 10, 2001, Larry
Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create
a wiki as a feeder project for Nupedia.[10] Wikipedia
was launched on January 15, 2001. It was launched as
an English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com,[11]
and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.[7]
Wikipedias policy of neutral point-of-view[12] was
codied in its initial months, and was similar to Nupedias earlier nonbiased policy. Otherwise, there were
not very many rules initially, and Wikipedia operated independently of Nupedia.[7]

Anyone who wishes to, can change the pages in

Wikipedia, or even make new ones. Wikipedia has a
standard page layout for all pages in the encyclopedia.
As of December 2007, Wikipedia had about 9.25 million pages in 253 languages, and more than 1.74 billion
words across all Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia is
the biggest.

History

Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia,

Wikipedia began as a related project for Nupedia. Nu- Slashdot, and also from search engines. It grew to about
pedia was a free online English-language encyclopedia 20,000 articles, and 18 languages by the end of 2001. By
project. Nupedias articles were written and owned by late 2002 it had 26 languages, 46 by the end of 2003, and
1

161 by the end of 2004.[13] Nupedia and Wikipedia both

existed until Nupedias servers were stopped in 2003. After this, its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. 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.[14]
The English Wikipedia reached 3 million articles in August 2009. The numbers of articles and of contributors appeared to be growing less quickly around spring
2007.[15]
In October 2014, the Wikipedia Monument was unveiled
to the public in Poland to honor all the contributors of the
Wikipedia.

REFERENCES

people should understand the basic function on the page.

The page is organized while they are looking up the page.
As Wikipedia users, they should have good understanding
of Wikipedia.
Did you know: Trivia from new articles.
In the news: News of the world.
On this day: Anniversaries.[16]
Current events: Not available at present.

4 Related pages
Simple English Wikipedia

10th anniversary

Epistemic community

5 References
[1] Grand Total. Wikimedia.org. August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
[2] Wikipedia.org Site Info. Alexa Internet. http://www.
alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2016-0812.
[3] Andreas Kaplan, Haenlein Michael (2014) Collaborative
projects (social media application): About Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia. Business Horizons, Volume 57 Issue 5,
pp.617-626
[4] Richard M. Stallman (2007-06-20). The Free Encyclopedia Project. Free Software Foundation. http:
//www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.html.
Retrieved 2008-01-04.
[5] Jonathan Sidener (2004-12-06).
Everyones Encyclopedia.
The San Diego Union-Tribune.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/
news_mz1b6encyclo.html. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
The logo used on the English Wikipedia on January 15, 2011

On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary. It used a special logo (pictured) to celebrate its
10 years since it opened on January 15, 2001, and the logo
was used for the whole day on the sidebar of the English
Wikipedia.

Using Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free site just like the online encyclopedia

that anybody can start or edit a page. A global site that
is available in many languages. While people can use any
searching engine, the Wikipedia page will come out in the
rst results of many searches. To use Wikipedia better,

[6] Meyers, Peter (2001-09-20).

Fact-Driven?
New York
Collegial?
This Site Wants You.
Times
(The
New
York
Times
Company).
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=
9800E5D6123BF933A1575AC0A9679C8B63&n=
Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%
2fC%2fComputer%20Software. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
" 'I can start an article that will consist of one paragraph,
and then a real expert will come along and add three
paragraphs and clean up my one paragraph,' said Larry
Sanger of Las Vegas, who founded Wikipedia with Mr.
Wales.
[7] Sanger, Larry (April 18, 2005). The Early History of
Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir. Slashdot. http:
//features.slashdot.org/features/05/04/18/164213.shtml.
Retrieved 2008-12-26.

[8] Sanger, Larry (January 17, 2001). Wikipedia Is

Up!".
Internet Archive.
http://web.archive.org/
web/20010506042824/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/
nupedia-l/2001-January/000684.html.
Retrieved
2008-12-26.
[9] Wikipedia-l: LinkBacks?". http://lists.wikimedia.org/
pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000671.html. Retrieved 2007-02-20.
[10] Sanger, Larry (2001-01-10). Lets Make a Wiki.
Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2003-0414. http://web.archive.org/web/20030414014355/http:
//www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/
000676.html. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
[11] Wikipedia: HomePage. Archived from the original on 2001-03-31.
http://web.archive.org/web/
20010331173908/http://www.wikipedia.com/.
Retrieved 2001-03-31.
[12] "Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia (January
21, 2007)
[13] "Multilingual statistics.
Wikipedia.
March 30,
2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
Multilingual_statistics. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
[14] Encyclopedias and Dictionaries. Encyclopdia Britannica, 15th ed. 18. (2007). Encyclopdia Britannica.
257286.
[15] Bobbie Johnson.
Wikipedia approaches its limits. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/
12/wikipedia-deletionist-inclusionist.
[16] O' Neil, Mark (16 December 2014). Everything
You Need To Know About Wikipedia And More.
MakeUseOf.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/
everything-need-know-wikipedia/.
Retrieved 21
February 2016.

Other websites
Wikipedia - multilingual portal (contains links to all
language editions of the project)
Wikipedia at the Open Directory Project
CBC News: I, editor
Wikipedia -Citizendium

7 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

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Text

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Billz, Storeye, MBlume, Escarbot, Tangotango, ^(vandal34), POLESMOKER, Heisback, Percy the Train, Barstow, JAnDbot, Sean
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Contributors: This version created by Pumbaa, using a proper partial circle and SVG geometry features. (Former versions used to be
slightly warped.) Original artist: SVG version was created by User:Grunt and cleaned up by 3247, based on the earlier PNG version,
created by Reidab.
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