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4 days ago · 2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
Apr 16, 2024 · Wikipedia continued to grow afterward, recording over 1 million articles across 100 different languages before the end of 2004; in 2005, Hitwise named Wikipedia the most popular reference website. Before the end of the first decade, Wikipedia already had 10million+ articles with over 51,000 editors.
4 days ago · On December 19, 2007, Microsoft signed a five-year, $500 million (~$708 million in 2023) contract with Viacom that included content sharing and advertisements. The deal allowed Microsoft to license many shows from Viacom owned cable television and film studios for use on Xbox Live and MSN .
3 days ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
3 days ago · This page contains information about all 342 languages for which official Wikipedias have been created under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation. The table below, however, excludes 13 Wikipedias that were closed and moved to the Wikimedia Incubator for further development, leaving a current total of 329 active Wikipedias.
May 4, 2024 · The company acquired Starter in 2004 and soccer uniform maker Umbro in 2007. In order to refocus its business lines, Nike began divesting itself of some of its subsidiaries in the 2000s. It sold Starter in 2007 and Bauer Hockey in 2008. The company sold Umbro in 2012 and Cole Haan in 2013.
2 days ago · Almost every student, faculty member, and librarian knows from experience how valuable Wikipedia can actually be when looking for quick background information about almost any topic. But what are the differences between Wikipedia and the traditional, scholarly reference works listed and described on the Reference Shelf tab of this guide?
