Larry Sanger proposed to make the encyclopedia using wiki software on January 10, 2001, and Wales trying to make it happen, and launch it on January 15 2001.ketika it, Wikipedia is a wiki-based website as a facility to make initial content encyclopedia that is done by the general public for examined by experts and then inserted into Nupedia, but Wikipedia's rapid development project to be a more developed and Nupedia become dormant. Sanger resigned from the project in 2002.
In mid-2003, Jimmy Wales founded the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation based in St. Petersburg, to support Wikipedia and other similar projects. He pointed to himself and two of his business orangrekan active Wikipedian who is not a member board of directors consisting of five people, two other members are elected community representatives.
According to Daniel H. Pink of Wired magazine, by 2004 Wales has spent approximately U.S. $ 500,000 to set up and operate the projects his Wiki, almost entirely from his own pocket. At the end of the fundraiser in February 2005, the Wikimedia Foundation is supported solely by donations and gifts. Wales became increasingly involved with promoting and talking about the Wikimedia projects, and to do so, he visited conferences and meetings, such as "Wikimeets" and Wikimania.
Wales is often explained his goals will Wikipedia. In an interview with the website Slashdot, he said, "Imagine a world in which every person can get free access to all existing science. That's what we do.
In late 2005, Wales was criticized for editing his own biography in a way which is called by some as "revisionist history. In particular, Rogers Cadenhead draw attention to the log file shows that Mr. Wales has removed references to Sanger as co-founder of Wikipedia. He is also known to have changed in a way that references Bomis referred to as reducing the element of sexuality of some of the products his company earlier.
In both cases, Wales found that conversion done solely to make it be more accurate. Wales explained that Sanger was its employees, and he always regarded himself as the sole founder of Wikipedia. In 2006, Wales told the Boston Globe newspaper that "absurd" to call Sanger as co-founder. However, Sanger strongly deny this. He has been known as the co-founder of Wikipedia, at least since September 2001, and referred to himself as at least since January 2002
After the event, Wales apologized for editing articles about his own biography (less preferred action at Wikipedia). Wales said in an interview in Wired magazine, "It should not be done, should not even my own. I regret melakukannya.Namun, he still insisted that he was the sole founder of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation which also oversees multilingual projects such as Wikiquote (collection of quotations), Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikisource (library manuscript), Wikibooks (textbooks), Wikinews (news source), Wikispecies (directory of species), and Wikiversity (learning materials).
Around the world, there are now 67,000 active contributors working on more than 4.6 million articles in 100 languages. Wikipedia is the largest English language version currently has 1,532,057 articles.
All Wikipedia content protected General Public Licence (GNU) Free Documentation License (GNU free documentation license or GNU FDL). Thousands of free project is under GNU FDL, but Wikipedia is this which is the largest project documentation GNU FDL.
Wikipedia policy that all articles should be written from a neutral point of view or a neutral point of view (NPOV). According to Wales, NPOV is a liability and should not be contested.
