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WIKIPEDIA PROFILE
Wikipedia was launched in 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. It is a free Web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit, which comes with multiple languages. It never uses advertisement and it is called as public park where people can gain knowledge.
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Wikipedia Headquarters:
San Francisco, California, United States of America.
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Reason behind the name Wikipedia:
wiki -> quick
pedia -> encyclopedia.
Wikipedia Company History:
2000
- Started Nupedia project, a web based encyclopaedia in English language.
January 2001
- Wikipedia was started as a side-project of Nupedia which support multiple languages.
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2002
- Jimmy announced that Wikipedia would never run commercial advertising.
2003
- The Wikimedia Foundation was established.
- Wikipedia (English) reached 100,000 articles.
- Wikipedia (German) passed 10,000.
2004
- Website improvement was done.
- Wikipedia is blocked in China for about two weeks.
- The number of articles reached 1 million
2005
- Wikipedia reached 750,000 articles.
2006
- Wikipedia reached 1 millionth article.
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2007
- Wikipedia continuously gained articles of 1,700 per day.
2008
- English Wikipedia exceeded 2.5 million articles.
2009
- The number of articles in all Wikipedia editions had exceeded 14 million.
- German Wikipedia crossed one million articles.
2010
- Server fails in Florida due to overhead problem.
- The problem was resolved quickly, but some areas were slower to regain access to Wikipedia.
2011
- Wikipedia becomes 10 year old on 15 January.
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2012
- On 16 January English Wikipedia was shut down for 24 hours to stop online piracy.
- Google funded Wikidata project was partly.
Official Website & Social:
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia
Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia & Wijipedia Website.