History of Wikipedia...（维基百科 的历史）

Wikipedia is the Bomis.com • president Jimmy Wales launched. In Previously, he had initiated a voluntary set up but at this stage a tightly controlled encyclopedia Xiangmu Nupedia, editor in chief who all have PhD degree, the only Shouji the hundreds of articles Wen Zhang, 2 years after the 由于 lack of funding and resources , the project aborted. In order to prevent these elements wasted, in January 2001 Wales will be posted these articles to a wiki site, and invite visitors to make changes and add on the new content. This site the first year a great success, the second year too. The initial concept of Wikipedia is Larry • Sanger (then Nupedia editor) and a computer programmer Ben Kovitz on January 2, 2001 in California, the first to propose a conversation. Kovitz was the collaborative wiki process one of the developers (and still is). When he was at dinner in the wiki to explain the concept of Sanger, Sanger immediately be found to create a wiki encyclopedia project a more open technology.Until a few months, Sanger and his boss, Wales, Bomis, Inc.'s President and CEO, discussed how to create a more open, easy plan to help Nupedia development. So to convince Wales Nupedia Sanger immediately create a wiki. Nupedia's first wiki on January 10 on the line, but the preparation of personnel in the Nupedia encountered tremendous resistance. Therefore, a new order to "Wikipedia" (Wikipedia) named the new program in January 15 was officially launched at wikipedia.com. San Diego, California in the United States of servers and cables donated by Wales. In the technology site Slashdot, after the three reports, Wikipedia is beginning to receive increasing attention, in addition Google will one day bring thousands of new traffic. English Wikipedia in February 12th, 2001 1,000 pages, September 7th article of 10,000 entries. In the program the first year, more than 20,000 entries shall be created, an average of 1,500 articles. August 30, 2002, has 40,000 entries. The pace of growth from the beginning of the steady growth plan. Will follow international Wikipedia, in May 2001, 13 non-English version of Wikipedia, plans to begin (including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian , Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish). To September, another three language versions of Wikipedia, joined a large family. To the end of the year, three other Norwegian and other languages also announced. In February 2002 by Edgar Enyedy (http://enciclopedia.us.es/wiki.phtml?title=Edgar Enyedy) led a very active Spanish Wikipedia Wikipedia abruptly quit and set up their own free Encyclopedia ( Enciclopedia Libre) (http://enciclopedia.us.es/); the grounds that there may be commercial advertising and the future loss of key control. In October, the participants in the Wikipedia Daniel Mayer (maveric149) and other participants in the attempt to re-integrate the two programs, but the players voted to Enciclopedia Libre in Wikipedia to present a proposal before the reunion, against the re-integration.However, Enciclopedia Libre user does not rule out the possibility of merging again in the future, and want to continue to maintain contact with Wikipedia. This dispute also raised on non-English version of Wikipedia, the extensive discussion of the role, and directly led to several non-English major reform of Wikipedia. Often there are spoilers to visit Wikipedia and wantonly destroy the program, usually the damage is quickly repaired, but the English Wikipedia page on the continuous destruction of the final result page to be "protected" to ensure that only administrators can modify . March 2002, users began ID24 English Wikipedia articles published in many extreme left, about his intense discussions leading to serious personal attacks, Jimmy • Wales last in April 2002 against ID24 on Wikipedia editing (but allow continue browsing). And often in German history-related article published in the pro-right wing views, and led to many controversial user "Helga", then in September 2002 banned editing Wikipedia. August 2002, at Jimmy • Wales announced that he will not publish commercial advertisements on Wikipedia, shortly after the URL from wikipedia.com Wikipedia into wikipedia.org. In the same year in October, Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ram-Man) use robot software (bot) automatically add information about American cities. These articles are automatically generated from the census report. Meanwhile, a similar procedure is also used to some other topics. December 2002, sisters plan Wiktionary (Wikipedia dictionary) started; its purpose is to create a dictionary of all languages. Wikipedia it run on the same server, using the same software. January 2003, Wikipedia began to support TeX mathematical formula shows that the code written by the Taw. January 22, 2003, English Wikipedia has reached 100 thousand roads purposes milestone, and Slashdot reported again two days later, when the second-largest Wikipedia, German Wikipedia has reached 10,000 entries milestone .