Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. Nupedia was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, Inc, a web portal company. Its main figures were Jimmy Wales, Bomis CEO, and Larry Sanger, edotro-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia.
Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia. While Wales is credited with defining the goal of making publicly editable encyclopedia, Sanger is usually credited with defining the goal of making a publicly editable encyclopedia, Sanger is usually credited with the strangely of using a wiki to reach that goal. On January 10,2001, Larry Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia. Wikipedia was formally launched on January 15,2001, as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com, and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.
Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot posting, and web search engine indexing. It grew to approximately 20,000 articles and 18 language editions by the ent of 2001. By late 2002, it had reached 26 language editions, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the final days of 2004. Nupedai and Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers were taken down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. Enlish Wikipedia passed the two million-article mark on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, eclipsing even the Youngle Encyclopedia (1407), which had held the record for exactly 600 years.
On 2002, Wales announced that Wikipedia would not display advertisements, and its website was moved to Wikipedia.org. Though the English Wikipedia reached three million articles in August 2009, the growth of the edition, in terms of the numbers of articles and of contributors, appeared to have flattered off around early 2007. In July 2007, about 2,200 articles were added daily to the encyclopedia; as of August 2009 [update], that average is 1,300.
Wikipedia has also spawned several sister projects, which are also run by the wikipedia Foundation.The first, "In Memoriam: September 11 Wiki", created in October 2002, detailed the September 11 attacks; this project was closed in October 2006. Wiktionary, a dictionary project, was launched in December 2002; Wikiquote, a collection of quotations, a week after Wikimedia launched, and Wikibooks, a collection of collaboratively written free textbooks and annotated texts. Wikimedia has since started a number of other projects for the creation of free learning materials and the provision of online learning activities. None of these sister projects, however, has come to meet the success of Wikipedia.
The online wiki-based encyclopedia Citizendium was started by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger in an attempt to create an "expert-friendly" Wikipedia.
As a consequence of the open structure, Wikipedia "makes no guarantee of validity" of its content, since no one i ultimately responsible for any claims appearing in it. concerns have been raised regarding the lack of accountability that results from users' anonymity, the insertion of false information, damage, and similar problems.
Wikipedia has been accused of exhibiting systemic bias and inconsistency; additionally, critics argue that Wikipedia's open nature and a lack of proper sources for much of the information makes it unreliable. Some commentators suggest that Wikipedia is generally reliable, but that the reliability of any given article is not always clear.
Editors of traditional reference works such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica have questioned the project's utility and status as an encyclopedia. Many university lecturers discourage students from citing any encyclopedia in academic work, preferring primary sources; some specifically prohibit Wikipedia citations. Co-founder Jimmy Wales stresses that encyclopedias of any type are not usually appropriate as primary sources, and should not be relied upon as authoritative.
Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia. While Wales is credited with defining the goal of making publicly editable encyclopedia, Sanger is usually credited with defining the goal of making a publicly editable encyclopedia, Sanger is usually credited with the strangely of using a wiki to reach that goal. On January 10,2001, Larry Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia. Wikipedia was formally launched on January 15,2001, as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com, and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.
Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot posting, and web search engine indexing. It grew to approximately 20,000 articles and 18 language editions by the ent of 2001. By late 2002, it had reached 26 language editions, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the final days of 2004. Nupedai and Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers were taken down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. Enlish Wikipedia passed the two million-article mark on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, eclipsing even the Youngle Encyclopedia (1407), which had held the record for exactly 600 years.
On 2002, Wales announced that Wikipedia would not display advertisements, and its website was moved to Wikipedia.org. Though the English Wikipedia reached three million articles in August 2009, the growth of the edition, in terms of the numbers of articles and of contributors, appeared to have flattered off around early 2007. In July 2007, about 2,200 articles were added daily to the encyclopedia; as of August 2009 [update], that average is 1,300.
Wikipedia has also spawned several sister projects, which are also run by the wikipedia Foundation.The first, "In Memoriam: September 11 Wiki", created in October 2002, detailed the September 11 attacks; this project was closed in October 2006. Wiktionary, a dictionary project, was launched in December 2002; Wikiquote, a collection of quotations, a week after Wikimedia launched, and Wikibooks, a collection of collaboratively written free textbooks and annotated texts. Wikimedia has since started a number of other projects for the creation of free learning materials and the provision of online learning activities. None of these sister projects, however, has come to meet the success of Wikipedia.
The online wiki-based encyclopedia Citizendium was started by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger in an attempt to create an "expert-friendly" Wikipedia.
As a consequence of the open structure, Wikipedia "makes no guarantee of validity" of its content, since no one i ultimately responsible for any claims appearing in it. concerns have been raised regarding the lack of accountability that results from users' anonymity, the insertion of false information, damage, and similar problems.
Wikipedia has been accused of exhibiting systemic bias and inconsistency; additionally, critics argue that Wikipedia's open nature and a lack of proper sources for much of the information makes it unreliable. Some commentators suggest that Wikipedia is generally reliable, but that the reliability of any given article is not always clear.
Editors of traditional reference works such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica have questioned the project's utility and status as an encyclopedia. Many university lecturers discourage students from citing any encyclopedia in academic work, preferring primary sources; some specifically prohibit Wikipedia citations. Co-founder Jimmy Wales stresses that encyclopedias of any type are not usually appropriate as primary sources, and should not be relied upon as authoritative.
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