wikipedia “free encyclopedia” = nupedia + wiki, 50+ languages
*01.1 by Larry Sanger (Nupedia) + Ben Kovitz (programmer) + sponsored by Jimbo Wales (Bomis president)
// Nupedia *00.3-03.9 Jimmy Wales + Larry Sanger
// Wales: “We recruited academics to write the articles. We had a peer review board. After nearly two years of work and an enormous amount of money, I think we had 12 articles to show for it.”
“Wikipedia owes its success to the presence of a strong core group of well-educated and articulate contributors from around the world who together maintain community standards of civility, quality and neutrality.”
“three strikes” vandalism policy is fairly easy to enforce. Most vandals get a two-strikes allowance. On the third offense, administrators block the offending poster’s I.P. address, preventing them from accessing the site. Though some find a new way back in, taunting the admins as they do so, most casual vandals get bored and find other places to ply their hatred.
“neutral point of view”, neutral content policy, bez zaujatosti
based on wiki technology, open knowledge, can be improved by anyone, content free of charge, w/o ads
licensed under GNU FDL
operated by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation Inc
wiktionary *02.12, dictionary+thesaurus, words in all languages, a free dictionary
wikiquote *03.6, a collection of notable quotations
wikibooks *03.7, free textbooks for schools and universities {ucebnice, manualy // recept na vegansku indicku Aloo Masala, ucebnica XML}
wikisource, a collection of public domain or FDL-licensed texts, {the communist manifesto, bible, zdrojak Perlu, text turkmenskej hymny, vysledky regionalnych volieb vo Francuzsku}
mediawiki, sw na ktorom fachci wikipedia, open source wiki engine