The earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1933,but the concept
of an open source web-based online encyclopedia was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000.
The Formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and larry Snager
Technique:
Jimmy and Larry Sanger using the concept and technology of a wiki and pioneered in
1995 by Ward Cunningham.
Starting:
Initially, Wikipedia was created to complement Nupedia,an online encyclopedia project edited solely by experts,by providing draft articles and ideas for it .Wikipedia quickly overtook Nupedia,becoming a global project in multiple languages and inspiring a wide range of other reference projects.
As of September 2013,Wikipedia includes over 29 million freely usable articles in 287 languages written by 41 million by registered and by numerous anonymous contributors worldwide.According to Alexa Internet.Wikipedia is the seventh most popular website
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