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- Wikipedia's name is a combination of two words, wiki and encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Wales-founded Nupedia, an earlier project to produce a free online encyclopedia, volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis.
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Apr 19, 2024 · Wikipedia, free Internet-based encyclopedia, started in 2001, that operates under an open-source management style. It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation and is one of the most-visited sites on the Internet. It uses a collaborative software known as wiki for editing articles.
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Jan 15, 2016 · “Wiki wiki” meant “quick” and it had the bonus of starting with a “W,” so Cunningham went with the name WikiWikiWeb for the site. Because of naming conventions in Unix, the technology also...
Jan 3, 2015 · As there was a desire to keep a degree of separation between the two projects, the Wiki was named "Wikipedia" and installed on its own domain, going live in early 2001. Wikipedia grew rapidly, and soon eclipsed Nupedia, both in terms of size and popularity.
Wikipedia's name is a combination of two words, wiki and encyclopedia. [3] Wikipedia was started on January 9, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as part of an earlier online encyclopedia named Nupedia. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia became a separate website of its own.
