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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.
Jan 3, 2015 · It didn't take long for Wikipedia's rapid growth to become evident: Wikipedia had over 20,000 articles before its first birthday, and it doubled that number less than a year later. in 2006, five years after it was launched, the English Wikipedia reached the 1 million articles milestone.
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, 2015 · Wikipedia had launched on Jan. 15, 2001 — that’s 14 years ago Thursday — and contained a mere 150,000 entries when TIME explained that “To contribute to wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia, all...
Arguably, we could trace the origins of Wikipedia back to the 1930s, when the sci-fi writer H.G. Wells proposed that a “Permanent World Encyclopedia” be created, compiled and edited by the world’s greatest minds.
