WIKIPEDIA CELEBRATING 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Wikipedia is written by mostly anonymous internet volunteers who contribute with out pay. Created in 2001, Wikipedia has grown quickly and is to day one of the largest reference websites, with almost 78 million visitors a month. Every day people from all over the world contribute by editing and creating new articles to augment the knowledge held by Wikipedia encyclopaedia.
Ten years ago Jimmy Wales had an idea of an encyclopaedia on the web. Today Wikipedia have got millions of articles in hundreds of languages. These days about 400 million people a month visit the website.Wikipedia is not counted with Wiki Leaks. The project started with the English-Language Wikipedia on January 15,2001, and then by a French edition. Other language followed. Based on information in January 2011, there are 278 language editions of Wikipedia, which together have more than 17 million articles.
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web based,free-content encyclopaedia project' with its name derived from the word combination of Wiki. Wiki- meaning quick'
In 2000, Jimmy Wales, founder of Nupedia, and Larry sangar, were thinking of ways to expand Nupedia. After much thought about allowing members of the public to make contributions, the idea of a Wikipedia' was born.It was launched on January 15,2001- which ,for many users. is also called, Wikipedia Day" The Wikimedia foundation,now based in San Francisco was also launched as the parent organisations.
From May 2001 onwards, a number of multilingual Wikipedia were also launched in Arbia, Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German,Hebrew,Italian,Japanese,Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish etc. It is estimated that Wikipedia now gets 78 million visitors every month. there are more than 91,000 active contributors working on more than 17,000,000 articles in more than 270 languages. There are also nearly 3,565,990 articles in English.Prof. John Kurakar
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