To celebrate this date, the famous site enabled the option “Wikipedia does it mean for you” , where users worldwide can leave messages about the impact it has had on their lives Encyclopedia.
Created by the stock
exoperador of Alabama, USA, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger US developer, the encyclopedia started with just $ 100,000, closed the door to advertising and it has been kept afloat by donations from users and the collaboration of 80,000 volunteers to create some 7,000 new articles every day.
The non-profit project exceeded in its first four years information of the Encyclopedia Britannica and is now a site as large as a normal reader would need over 21 years to read the contents of the pages in English.
Wales, 49, married to a millionaire Kate Garvey third marriage, exasistente staff of British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he wants to create a world in which everyone has free access to all knowledge.
“Jimbo” as friends know him, he said this week in an interview with the British newspaper “The Telegraph” no regrets not being monetized Wikipedia and says that if it depended on the people in the forgotten corners of the world would have a free phone with Wikipedia preinstalled.
“The growth of Wikipedia in the developing world remains a personal priority of mine. So we have much to do, “ Wales explained to Telegraph, encyclopedias lover since childhood.
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