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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#83 | r mathematical formulas in TeX was added. The code was contributed by Tomasz Wegrzanowski.
- On 9 June 2003, Wikipedia's ISBN interface was amended to make ISBNs in articles link to Special:Booksources, which fetches its contents from the user-editable page Wikipedia:Book sources. Before this, ISBN link targets were co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#84 | 003, various system messages shown to Wikipedia users were no longer hard coded, allowing Wikipedia administrators to modify certain parts of MediaWiki's interface, such as the message shown to blocked users.
- On 12 February 2004, server operations were moved from San Diego, California to Tampa, Florida.[163]
- On 29 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#85 | of "categorization" entries appeared. Category schemes, like Recent Changes and Edit This Page, had existed since the founding of Wikipedia. However, Sanger had viewed the schemes as lists, and even hand-entered articles, whereas the categorization effort centered on individual categorization entries in each article of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#86 | inistrators could edit the style of the interface by changing the CSS in the monobook stylesheet at MediaWiki:Monobook.css.
- Also on 30 May 2004, with MediaWiki 1.3, the Template namespace was created, allowing transclusion of standard texts.[165]
- On 7 June 2005 at 3:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the bulk of the Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#87 | , the first phase of the Wikidata interwiki database became available across Wikipedia's language editions.[120]
- In July 2013, the VisualEditor editing interface was inaugurated, allowing users to edit Wikipedia using a WYSIWYG text editor (similar to a word processor) instead of wiki markup.[131] An editing interfac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#88 | Wikipedia branding, as presented to users.
- On 4 April 2002, BrilliantProse, since renamed Featured Articles,[166] was moved to the Wikipedia namespace from the article namespace.
- Around 15 October 2003, a new Wikipedia logo was installed. The logo concept was selected by a voting process,[167] which was followed by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#89 | username "nohat") based on a logo design and concept created by Paul Stansifer.
- On 22 February 2004, Did You Know (DYK) made its first Main Page appearance.
- On 23 February 2004, a coordinated new look for the Main Page appeared at 19:46 UTC. Hand-chosen entries for the Daily Featured Article, Anniversaries, In the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#90 | placing a redirect to the English-language Wikipedia.
- On 5 February 2005, Portal:Biology was created, becoming the first thematic "portal" on the English Wikipedia.[168] However, the concept was pioneered on the German Wikipedia, where Portal:Recht (law studies) was set up in October 2003.[169]
- On 16 July 2005, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#91 | vote, the Main Page of the English-language Wikipedia featured its first redesign in nearly two years.
- On 13 May 2010, the site released a new interface. New features included an updated logo, new navigation tools, and a link wizard.[104]
Layout changes in 2023
Vector 2022, an update to Wikipedia's previous skin Vect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#92 | 3.[170] By January 2023, Wikimedia had made the update available to 300 of its language editions; it was the default for the Arabic and Greek versions.[171][172][173]
Vector 2022 features a revised user interface which makes numerous changes to the arrangement of the interface elements. Among them, the language selecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#93 | currently read.[173] Additionally, the sidebar is collapsible behind a hamburger button. Vector 2022 additionally increases the margins of the article display, which has the effect of limiting the width of the article;[173] a toggle exists which can decrease the margins and expand the line width of the article to fill ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#94 | ey hope to make this an option in future.[171] The search function was also updated in Vector 2022, as the suggested results in response to user queries now include images and short descriptions from the pages in question.[173][175]
The Wikimedia Foundation said that the change was motivated by a desire to modernize th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#95 | med "clunky and overwhelming."[170][171][174] Tests conducted by the foundation yielded results of a 30 percent increase in user searches, and a 15 percent decrease in scrolling.[171][174] Early versions of Vector 2022 first went live in 2020 on the French-, Hebrew-, and Portuguese-language Wikipedia sites,[170] as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#96 | t skin for readers of Wikimedia sites in 300 (out of 318) languages on 18 January 2023.[171][172][173]
Following the mass rollout of Vector 2022, it is still possible to read Wikipedia using the previous skin. However, to do so requires readers to register for a Wikipedia account, and then set their preferences to disp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#97 | ailable to use.[172][177]
Wikipedia users were divided on the changes. A request for comment on the English Wikipedia asking the community whether or not Vector 2022 should be deployed as the default skin accumulated over 90,000 words in responses.[172] Critics of the redesign objected most prominently to the white spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#98 | rs participating in the discussion disapproved of the new skin, while 153 were in favor, and nine remained neutral.[178][172][179] Despite the larger number of editors who expressed that they did not want Vector 2022 to be deployed in its then-current form, as consensus on Wikipedia is not decided by vote, the discussi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#99 | s made some changes to the skin in response to the criticisms, such as adding a toggle to enable article content to fill the entire width of the screen.[172][180] Users on the Swahili Wikipedia unanimously disagreed with the enactment of the new skin.[172]
Journalists responding to Vector 2022's rollout considered the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#100 | ndamentally change their reading experience on Wikipedia.[175][172][174] Annie Rauwerda, creator of the Depths of Wikipedia social media accounts, wrote in Slate that Vector 2022 was not "dramatically different" from the previous skin. Rauwerda additionally noted the similarity between the Wikipedia community backlash ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#101 | rl of Mashable, commented that users displeased with the change could weigh in on a discussion about the skin, or use the site's built-in customization features to alter their reading experience.[178][172]
Internal structures
- Landmarks in the Wikipedia community, and the development of its organization, internal stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#102 | itorial policy,[182] a reformulation of the "Lack of Bias" policy outlined by Sanger for Nupedia in spring or summer 2000, which covered many of the same core principles.[183]
- In September 2001, collaboration by subject matter in WikiProjects is introduced.[184]
- In February 2002, concerns over the risk of future ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#103 | ed most participants of the Spanish Wikipedia to break away and establish it independently as the Enciclopedia Libre.[185] Following clarification of Wikipedia's status and non-commercial nature later that year, re-merger talks between Enciclopedia Libre and the re-founded Spanish Wikipedia occasionally took place in 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#104 | ence sources, with around 43,000 articles (EL) and 520,000 articles (Sp.W) respectively.[186]
- Also in 2002, policy and style issues were clarified with the creation of the Manual of Style, along with a number of other policies and guidelines.[187]
- In November 2002, new mailing lists for WikiEN and Announce were set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#105 | nst editing one's autobiography is introduced.[189]
- On 28 October 2003, the first "real" meeting of Wikipedians happened in Munich. Many cities followed suit, and soon a number of regular Wikipedian get-togethers were established around the world. Several Internet communities, including one on the popular blog websit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#106 | ormerly on the Main Page were replaced by links to overviews. On 27 August 2004 the Community Portal was started,[190] to serve as a focus for community efforts. These were previously accomplished on an informal basis, by individual queries of the Recent Changes, in wiki style, as ad hoc collaborations between like-min... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#107 | nti-abuse features and policies were added to Wikipedia. These were:
- The policy for "Checkuser" (a MediaWiki extension to assist detection of abuse via internet sock-puppetry) was established in November 2005.[192] Checkuser function had previously existed but was viewed more as a system tool at the time, so there ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#108 | cted to editors who had created a user account.[194]
- The introduction and rapid adoption of the policy Wikipedia:Biographies of living people, giving a far tighter quality control and fact-check system to biographical articles related to living people.
- The "semi-protection" function and policy,[195] allowing pages ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#109 | ish Wikipedia, allowing a handful of highly trusted users to permanently erase page revisions containing copyright infringements or libelous or personal information from a page's history. Previous to this, page version deletion was laborious, and also deleted versions remained visible to other administrators and could ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#110 | n as an effort to promote "wikilove" and a social support network, but had developed its own subculture and private structures.[196] Its disbanding was described as the painful but necessary remedy for a project that had allowed editors to "see themselves as Esperanzans first and foremost".[197] A number of Esperanza's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#111 | founded in September 2005, there had been concerns expressed that it would eventually be condemned as such.[198]
- In April 2007, the results of a 4-month policy review by a working group of several hundred editors seeking to merge the core Wikipedia policies into one core policy (Wikipedia:Attribution) were polled for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#112 | rong focused policies covering the respective areas of policy, was frequently seen as more helpful to quality control than one more general merged proposal.
- A one-day blackout of Wikipedia was called by Jimmy Wales on 18 January 2012, in conjunction with Google and over 7,000 other websites, to protest the Stop Onlin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#113 | anizational structure of the Wikimedia Foundation, its executive, and its activities as a foundation.
- In August 2002, shortly after Jimmy Wales announced that he would never run commercial advertisements on Wikipedia, the URL of Wikipedia was changed from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org (.com and .org).
- On 20 June 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#114 | ils received for the foundation and Wikipedia via the newly implemented OTRS (a ticket handling system).
- Angela Beesley and Florence Nibart-Devouard were elected to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. During this time, Angela was active in editing content and setting policies, such as privacy policy, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#115 | 006, Angela Beesley resigned from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.[201]
- In October 2006, Florence Nibart-Devouard became chair of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Edit milestones and projects
- Sister projects and milestones related to articles, user base, and other statistics.
- On 15 January 2001, the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#116 | oduce a dictionary and thesaurus of the words in all languages. It uses the same software as Wikipedia.
- On 22 January 2003, the English Wikipedia was again slashdotted after having reached the 100,000 article milestone with the Hastings, article. Two days later, the German-language Wikipedia, the largest non-English ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#117 | quote" was created. A month later, "Wikibooks" was launched. "Wikisource" was set up towards the end of the year.
- In January 2004, Wikipedia reached the 200,000-article milestone in English with the article on Neil Warnock, and reached 450,000 articles for both English and non-English Wikipedias. The next month, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#118 | dia reached 250,000.
- On 7 July 2004, the article count of the English Wikipedia reached 300,000.
- On 20 September 2004, Wikipedia's total article count exceeded 1,000,000 articles in over 105 languages; the project received a flurry of related attention in the press.[202] The one millionth article was published in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#119 | d 400,000.
- On 18 March 2005, Wikipedia passed the 500,000-article milestone in English, with Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union being announced in a press release as the landmark article.[203]
- In May 2005, Wikipedia became the most popular reference website on the Internet according to traffic monitoring c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#120 | e mark.
- On 1 March 2006, the English Wikipedia passed the 1,000,000-article mark, with Jordanhill railway station being announced on the Main Page as the milestone article.[204]
- On 8 June 2006, the English Wikipedia passed the 1,000-featured-article mark, with Iranian peoples.[205]
- On 15 August 2006, the Wikimedi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#121 | ons.
- On 24 November 2006, the English Wikipedia passed the 1,500,000-article mark, with Kanab ambersnail being announced on the Main Page as the milestone article.[204]
- On 4 April 2007, the first Wikipedia CD selection in English was published as a free download.[207]
- On 22 April 2007, the English Wikipedia passe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#122 | ssed the 2,000,000-article mark. El Hormiguero was accepted by consensus as the 2,000,000th article.
- On 28 March 2008, Wikipedia exceeded 10 million articles across all 251 language editions.
- On 11 October 2008, the English Wikipedia passed the 2,500,000-article mark. While no attempt was made to officially identif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#123 | pedia passed the 3,000,000-article mark, with Beate Eriksen being announced on the Main Page as the milestone article.
- On 27 December 2009, the German Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 21 September 2010, the French Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 article... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#124 | le mark.
- On 22 November 2011, Wikipedia exceeded 20 million articles across all 282 language editions.
- On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia exceeded 100 million page edits.
- On 24 November 2011, the English Wikipedia exceeded 500 million page edits.
- On 17 December 2011, the Dutch Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#125 | ticles, with Izbat al-Burj.[125]
- On 22 January 2013, the Italian Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the fifth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 11 May 2013, the Russian Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the sixth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 16 May 2013, the Spanish Wik... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#126 | edia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the eighth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 25 September 2013, the Polish Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the ninth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 21 October 2013, Wikipedia exceeded 30 million articles across all 287 language editions.
- On... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#127 | 0,000 article mark.
- On 8 June 2014, the Waray Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the tenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 15 June 2014, the Vietnamese Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the eleventh Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 17 July 2014, the Cebuano Wikipedia exce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#128 | ceeded 2,000,000 articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia exceeded 5,000,000 articles, with Persoonia terminalis, and it has over 125,000 editors who have made 1 or more edits in the past 30 days.
- On 1 February 2016, the Japanese Wikipedia exceeded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#129 | eeded 2,000,000 articles, becoming the third Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 29 April 2016, the Swedish Wikipedia exceeded 3,000,000 articles, becoming the third Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 26 May 2016, Wikipedia exceeded 40 million articles across all 293 language editions.
- On 26 September 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#130 | 016, the German Wikipedia exceeded 2,000,000 articles, becoming the fifth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 3 March 2017, the Cebuano Wikipedia exceeded 4,000,000 articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 6 July 2017, the Spanish Wikipedia exceeded 100,000,000 page edits.
- On 15 S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#131 | ,000-article mark.
- On 13 April 2018, the Chinese Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the fourteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 27 June 2018, the Portuguese Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the fifteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 8 July 2018, the French Wikiped... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#132 | exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the sixteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 20 January 2019, the Spanish Wikipedia exceeded 1,500,000 articles, becoming the seventh Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 1 February 2019, the Wikipedia News recalculated that the Italian Wikipedia exceeded 1,500,000 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#133 | ss all 309 language editions.
- On 2 August 2019, the South Azerbaijani Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 page edits.
- On 17 November 2019, the Arabic Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the eighteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 23 January 2020, the English Wikipedia exceeded 6,000,000 articles, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#134 | ing the sixth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 23 March 2020, the Ukrainian Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the seventeenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 1 July 2020, the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the eighteenth Wikipedia language edition to do ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#135 | eded 1,000,000 page edits.
- On 4 February 2021, the English Wikipedia exceeded 1 billion page edits.
- On 14 October 2021, the Cebuano Wikipedia exceeded 6,000,000 articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
- On 14 December 2021, the Polish Wikipedia exceeded 1,500,000 articles, becoming the tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#136 | 209]
- On 19 January 2022, the Indonesian Wikipedia exceeded 20 million page edits.
- On 17 October 2022, The Norwegian Wikipedia exceeded 600,000 articles.[209]
- On 27 November 2022, Wikipedia exceeded 60 million articles across all 329 language editions.[210]
Fundraising
Every year, the Wikimedia Foundation runs fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#137 | year in different countries. In addition to the fundraising banners on Wikipedia itself, there are also email campaigns; some emails invite people to leave the Wikimedia Foundation money in their wills.[212][213] Revenue has risen every year of the Wikimedia Foundation's existence, reaching US$180.17 million as of 30 J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#138 | aising effort begun in 2016, reached $100 million in 2021, five years sooner than planned.[216]
External impact
- In 2007, Wikipedia was deemed fit to be used as a major source by the UK Intellectual Property Office in a Formula One trademark case ruling.[217]
- Over time, Wikipedia gained recognition amongst more trad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#139 | can Presidential election,[218] and 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. The latter article was accessed 750,000 times in two days, with newspapers published locally to the shootings adding that "Wikipedia has emerged as the clearinghouse for detailed information on the event."[219]
- On 21 February 2007, Noam Cohen of the New... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#140 | cle in The Harvard Crimson newspaper reported that some professors at Harvard University included Wikipedia in their syllabi, but that there was a split in their perception of using Wikipedia.[221]
- In July 2013, a large-scale study by four major universities identified the most disputed articles on Wikipedia, finding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#141 | se Wikipedia biographies are often updated with new information comes, they are often used as a reference source on the lives of notable people. This has led to attempts to manipulate and falsify Wikipedia articles for promotional or defamatory purposes (Controversies) and has also led to novel uses of the biographical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#142 | John Seigenthaler had been involved in the Kennedy assassination of 1963.
- In December 2006, German comedian Atze Schröder sued Arne Klempert, secretary of Wikimedia Deutschland because he did not want his real name published in Wikipedia. Schröder later withdrew his complaint but wanted his attorney's costs to be pai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#143 | er Akçam was briefly detained upon arrival at Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport because of false information on his Wikipedia biography claiming he was a terrorist.[224][225]
- In November 2008, the German Left Party politician Lutz Heilmann claimed that some remarks in his Wikipedia article caused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#144 | lt was a national outpouring of support for Wikipedia, more donations to Wikimedia Deutschland, and a rise in daily pageviews of the Lutz Heilmann article from a few dozen to half a million. Shortly after, Heilmann asked the court to withdraw the court order.[226]
- In December 2008, Wikimedia Nederland, the Dutch chap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#145 | the article deleted. The judge in Utrecht believed Wikimedia's assertion that it has no influence on the content of Dutch Wikipedia.[227]
- In February 2009, when Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg became federal minister on 10 February 2009, an u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#146 | wary Wikipedians wanted to erase Wilhelm, the revert was reverted with regard to those newspapers. This case about Wikipedia reliability and journalists copying from Wikipedia became known as Falscher Wilhelm ("wrong Wilhelm").[228]
Early roles of Wales and Sanger
Wales, along with others, came up with and funded the i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#147 | tant role in this as Nupedia's editor-in-chief and main employee.[229] In Sanger's introductory message to the Nupedia mailing list, he said that Jimmy Wales "contacted me and asked me to apply as editor-in-chief of Nupedia. [...] He had had the idea for Nupedia since at least last fall. He tells me that, when thinking... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#148 | or the job. This is indeed my dream job".[230]
Sanger suggested using a wiki to provide a complementary project for people "intimidated and bored" by Nupedia's elaborate processes,[27] and coined the portmanteau "Wikipedia" as the project name.[231][229] This was broadly seen as a way to unblock the growing community o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#149 | rafting policies such as "Ignore all rules"[232] and "Neutral point of view"[63]) and worked with an outreach lead to build up the community of both Nupedia and Wikipedia editors.[229] Upon departure in March 2002, Sanger emphasized the main issue was purely the cessation of funding for his role, which was not viable p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#150 | ll-time editor-in-chief.[21] Later that year he stopped contributing to either project, and by 2004 had become publicly critical of Wikipedia. In December 2004 he wrote an essay arguing that Wikipedia was suffering from anti-elitism.[233] In April 2005 he published a two-part memoir of his work on Nupedia and Wikipedia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#151 | n to push back on Sanger's characterization of his role in the project.[234][235][236] By 2006, after the launch of Citizendium, Sanger was harshly critical of Wikipedia, describing it as "broken beyond repair."[237]
In 2005, Wales described himself simply as the founder of Wikipedia;[234] however, according to Brian B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#152 | ers in various press releases, interviews, and news reports from 2001[238] and 2002.[239] Before January 2004, Wales did not dispute Sanger's status as co-founder.[240] In 2006, Wales said, "He used to work for me [...] I don't agree with calling him a co-founder, but he likes the title".[241] Starting in 2006, when Sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#153 | ier sources that described him as such.[229][238][242][243]
Controversies
- In November 2005, the Seigenthaler controversy caused Brian Chase to resign from his employment, after his identity was ascertained by Daniel Brandt of Wikipedia Watch. Following this, the scientific journal Nature undertook a peer reviewed stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#154 | of accuracy.[244][245] Britannica rejected their methodology and their conclusion.[246] Nature refused to release any form of apology, and instead asserted the reliability of its study and a rejection of the criticisms.[247]
- During early-to-mid-2006, the congressional aides biography scandals were publicized, whereby... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#155 | irable information (including pejorative quotes, or broken campaign promises), added favorable information or "glowing" tributes, or replaced the article in part or whole by staff-authored biographies. The staff of at least five politicians were implicated: Marty Meehan, Norm Coleman, Conrad Burns, Joe Biden and Gil Gu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#156 | iant, resigned after being found to have added negative information to the Wikipedia entries of political opponents.[250] Following media publicity, the incidents tapered off around August 2006.
- In July 2006, Joshua Gardner was exposed as a fake Duke of Cleveland with a Wikipedia page.[251]
- In January 2007, English... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#157 | realize that the country's internet traffic is routed through a single IP address. Multiple media sources promptly declared that Wikipedia was banning Qatar from the site.[252]
- On 23 January 2007, a Microsoft employee offered to pay Rick Jelliffe to review and change certain Wikipedia articles regarding an open-sourc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#158 | l correction that a prominent English Wikipedia editor and administrator known as "Essjay", had invented a persona using fictitious credentials.[254][255] The editor, Ryan Jordan, became a Wikia employee in January 2007 and divulged his real name; this was noticed by Daniel Brandt of Wikipedia Watch, and communicated t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#159 | efamation and causing harm to her business, the Barbara Bauer Literary Agency.[256] In Bauer v. Glatzer, Bauer claimed that information on Wikipedia critical of her abilities as a literary agent caused this harm. The Electronic Frontier Foundation defended Wikipedia[257] and moved to dismiss the case on 1 May 2008.[258... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#160 | mation that, by coincidence, foreshadowed the Chris Benoit murder-suicide, hours before the bodies were found by investigators. The discovery of the edit attracted widespread media attention and was first covered in the sister site Wikinews.
- In October 2007, in their obituaries of recently deceased TV theme composer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#161 | , and it was discovered that this information had been sourced from a hoax edit to Hazlehurst's Wikipedia article.[260]
- On 14 July 2009, the National Portrait Gallery issued a cease-and-desist letter for alleged breach of copyright, against a Wikipedia editor who downloaded more than 3,000 high-resolution images from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#162 | ][262][263][264][265]
- In April and May 2010, there was controversy over the hosting and display of sexual drawing and pornographic images including images of children on Wikipedia.[266][267][268] It led to the mass removal of pornographic content from Wikimedia Foundation sites.[269][270]
- In November 2012, Lord Jus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#163 | am Smith, Stephen Glover and Brett Straub..." He had used the Wikipedia article for The Independent newspaper as his source, but an act of vandalism had replaced Matthew Symonds (a genuine co-founder) with Brett Straub (an unknown character).[271] The Economist said of the Leveson report, "Parts of it are a scissors-an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#164 | the pornographic images deleted from Wikipedia since 2010.[273]
Notable forks and derivatives
There are a large number of Wikipedia mirror and forks. Other sites also use the MediaWiki software and concept, popularized by Wikipedia. No list of them is maintained. Specialized foreign language forks using the Wikipedia c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#165 | ese). Some of these (such as Enciclopedia Libre) use GFDL or compatible licenses as used by Wikipedia, leading to the exchange of material with their respective language Wikipedias. In 2006, Sanger founded Citizendium, based upon a modified version of MediaWiki.[274] The site said it aimed 'to improve on the Wikipedia ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#166 | ded Conservapedia, based on MediaWiki.
Publication on other media
The German Wikipedia was the first to be partly published also using other media (rather than online on the internet), including releases on CD in November 2004[276] and more extended versions on CDs or DVD in April 2005 and December 2006. In December 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#167 | , its history and policies, which was accompanied by a 7.5 GB DVD containing 300,000 articles and 100,000 images from the German Wikipedia.[277] Originally, Directmedia also announced plans to print the German Wikipedia in its entirety, in 100 volumes of 800 pages each. The publication was due to begin in October 2006,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#168 | es volume with a selection of popular German Wikipedia articles. Bertelsmann paid voluntarily 1 Euro per sold copy to Wikimedia Deutschland.[279] A free software project has also been launched to make a static version of English Wikipedia available for use on iPods. The "Encyclopodia" project was started around March 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#169 | 2, there have been no more article selection releases since Wikipedia Version 0.8.[291]
Lawsuits
In limited ways, the Wikimedia Foundation is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In the defamation action Bauer et al. v. Glatzer et al., it was held that Wikimedia had no case to answer because of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#170 | r Oberlandesgericht (the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart) ruled that Wikipedia is a "service provider" not a "content provider", and as such is immune from liability as long as it takes down content that is accused of being illegal.[294]
See also
- History of wikis
- Predictions of the end of Wikipedia
- The Wikiped... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#171 | edia Foundation. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ "Wikipedia.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Wikipedia of Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger". History Computer. 2010. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 9 N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#172 | ichard (1998). "The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource (1998 Draft)". GNU. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- ^ "WikiHistory". WikiWikiWeb. Archived from the original on 21 June 2002. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ^ a b c "The future of Wikipedia: WikiPeaks?". The Econ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#173 | igital Media Properties for January 2015". comScore. 24 February 2015. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ^ "Monthly overview". Wikimedia statistics. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
- ^ Miloš, Todorović (2018). "From Didero... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#174 | zenodo.3235309. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ a b Reagle, Joseph (2010). Good Faith Collaboration. The Culture of Wikipedia. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262014472. Chapter 2: "The Pursuit of the Universal Encyclopedia".
- ^ Winchester, Simon (1998). The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#175 | on 30 September 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ Mangu-Ward, Katherine (30 May 2007). "Wikipedia and Beyond". Reason.com. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ "Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: "I have this crazy idea that people will pay for free news"", Danny in the Valley, 19 January 2018, archived from the original on 16 Marc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#176 | is 20, and its reputation has never been higher". The Economist. 9 January 2021. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
- ^ Poe, Marshall (September 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Archived from the original on 23 December 2006. Retrieved 25 March 2007.
Wales ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#177 | then be "fed into the Nupedia process" of authorization. Most of Nupedia's expert volunteers, however, wanted nothing to do with this, so Sanger decided to launch a separate site called "Wikipedia". Neither Sanger nor Wales looked on Wikipedia as anything more than a lark. This is evident in Sanger's flip announcement ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#178 | ten minutes". And, to Sanger's surprise, go they did. Within a few days, Wikipedia outstripped Nupedia in terms of quantity, if not quality, and a small community developed. In late January, Sanger created a Wikipedia discussion list (Wikipedia-L) to facilitate discussion of the project.
- ^ a b Sidener, Jonathan (6 De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#179 | 5 March 2007.
- ^ a b c d Sanger, Larry (18 April 2005). "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir – Part I". Archived from the original on 22 July 2009. "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir – Part II". Slashdot. 19 April 2005. Archived from the original on 8 November 2006.
My initial idea ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#180 | be fed into the Nupedia process. I think I got some of the basic pages written—how wikis work, what our general plan was, and so forth—over the next few days. I wrote a general proposal for the Nupedia community, and the Nupedia wiki went live January 10. The first encyclopedia articles for what was to become Wikipedia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#181 | a wiki. Again, their commitment was to rigor and reliability, a concern I shared with them and continue to have. Still, perhaps some of those people are kicking themselves now. They (some of them) evidently thought that a wiki could not resemble an encyclopedia at all, that it would be too informal and unstructured, as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia#182 | ould turn into the fantastic source of content that it did. Who could reasonably guess that it would work? But it did work, and now the world knows better.
- ^ Kaplan Andreas, Haenlein Michael (2014) Collaborative projects (social media application): About Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Business Horizons, Volume 57 ... |
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