Wikipedia , the largest Free and collaborative online encyclopedia in the world, meets today 15 years converted into the consulting room Internet more popular, with 500 million unique monthly users and more than 38 million articles in 250 languages, according to information from the same portal.
To celebrate this date, famous site enabled the “Wikipedia does it mean for you” where users worldwide can leave messages on the impact it has had on their lives encyclopedia.
Created by the stock exoperador Alabama (USA) Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger US developer, the encyclopedia began with only $ 100,000, closed the doors to advertising and has been kept afloat by donations from users and collaboration 80,000 volunteers to create some 7,000 new articles every day.
The nonprofit project exceeded in its first four years, the information of the Encyclopedia Britannica and is now a site as wider than a normal reader would need over 21 years to read the contents of the pages in English.
Wales, 49, a millionaire married in third nuptials with Kate Garvey, exasistente staff of British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he wants to create a world in which each person has Free access to all knowledge.
“Jimbo” as friends know him said this week in an interview with the British newspaper “The Telegraph” no regrets not being monetized Wikipedia and ensure that if it depended on the people in the forgotten corners of the world would have a free phone with preinstalled Wikipedia.
“The growth of Wikipedia in the developing world remains a personal priority of mine (…) so we have much to do,” he told Telegraph Wales, lover encyclopedias as a child.
About the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia, the FiveThirtyEight website made an analysis of the pages of the online encyclopedia edited. FiveThirtyEight, which used data provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, found that page US President George W. Bush (2001-2009) is the one with more editions, 20 894 in total.
exaspirante page to the White House Sarah Palin, the entry of the Lebanese war in 2006, the sinister Malaysia Airlines plane in 2014 while flying over Ukraine and the input of current US President Barack Obama also among the most edited.
As for thematic categories, FiveThirtyEight concluded that “Wikipedians” are obsessed with following the deaths worldwide, as well as political events, pop culture, time and esoteric and arcane matters.
Wikipedia is no stranger to controversy. In its own entrance, the encyclopedia realize critical views, such as columnist and journalist Edwin Black criticizing Wikipedia to be a mixture of “truth, half-truth and some falsehood”.
In 2006, Wikipedia Watch site listed dozens of examples of plagiarism in the English version of the encyclopedia. Some errors have been published in high-profile Wikipedia.
One of the best known took place in December 2005, when journalist John Seigenthaler, former editor of the newspaper Tennesssean Nashville, He complained that the encyclopedia entry into implicating him in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The error went unnoticed for months.
Wikipedia also received coverage in major US Rotary in 2006 after it came to light that congressional officials had distorted information about some lawmakers appearing on the site.
In 2012, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, based in London, revealed that one in six British MPs had done their pages editasen from within parliament, a practice that Wales considered “unethical”, he explained to Telegraph.
Despite these incidents, an analysis in 2005 of 42 science entries in the journal Nature It concluded that Wikipedia is about as reliable scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica
. Source: EFE
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