Brief history of Wikipedia (search from Wikipedia):
- launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
- the concept was came from Richard Stallman
- originally, it was a 'feeder' to the expert-written English-language encyclopedia project 'Nupedia'
source from: wikipedia in "History of Wikipedia", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
Wikipedia (search from Wikipedia)
- a free web-based and collaborative multilingual encyclopedia project
- "wiki" means a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick" and encyclopedia
- it contains 13 million articles (3 million in English) which were written collaboratively by volunteers around the world
- articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website
- it is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet
source from: wikipedia in "Wikipedia", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Wikipedia (search from Encyclopedia Britannica)
- "free, Internet-based encyclopaedia operating under an open-source management style"
- nonprofit
- it is collaborate with the software wiki
- there were more than one million articles in 2006 and more than two million in 2007
- it is an international project with many different languages, like French, German, Polish, Dutch, Hebrew, Chinese and Esperanto
source form: Encyclopedia Britannica in "Wikipedia", http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192818/Wikipedia
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