who created wikipedia and when?

Answer 1

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc
In mid-2003, Wales set up the Wikimedia Foundation,[14] a non-profit organization[15] based in St. Petersburg, Florida, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects. The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation consists of seven directors as of May 2007.[16]

Wales has explained his motivations about Wikipedia. In an interview with Slashdot, he said, "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge

Answer 2

Who Created Wikipedia

Answer 3

2001 the Odyssey of Wikipedia was started by two people.

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales are both responsible for the creation of Wikipedia though they both had different roles in the starting of the unique and copyrighted site concept.

We all can be editors of Wikipedia, which has lead to the problem of some of the information has errors.
that is why there is a new start up wiki in the process.

Answer 4

Wikipedia was created in 2001. Wikipedia was founded based off of the ideas of Nupedia, which was created by Jimmy Wales. Larry Sanger and computer programmer Ben Kovitz set up wikipedia.

Know more..........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Wikipedia_history

Answer 5

Jimmy Wales was a large contributor to Wikipedia, and started the wiki corporation that is over wikipedia. He along with Larry Sanger created it in 2001.

Answer 6

If you want to edit pages, it is advisable to get a user account. If you do it without a user account, your ip address will be shown with your edit, which might enable some people to know who you are. If you do have an account, this is not visible. As stated above, a small group of checkusers can still see it, however, they will only check it if there is a suspicion of abuse (that is, someone believes that you are the same as some other user in a way that is not allowed), and they will only give out your ip address if such is necessary (in general, that would be if you were indeed that other person and they wanted to block not just your user accounts, but also make it impossible for you to create a new account or work under yet another name). Your email address will not be visible; in fact, it is not even necessary to give out an email address when creating an account, you can also keep the email address empty and only provide a username and password.

Answer 7

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales



Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia, co-founder and chief organizer (2001-2002) of its successor, Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium.In the interim, he was also an early strategist for the expert-authored and edited Encyclopedia of Earth. He proposed Citizendium on September 15, 2006, originally designed as a fork of Wikipedia. It was launched on March 25, 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger

Answer 8

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites on the Internet.

Answer 9

Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed by a formal process. Nupedia was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, Inc, a web portal company. Its principal figures were Jimmy Wales, Bomis CEO, and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia. Nupedia was licensed initially under its own Nupedia Open Content License, switching to the GNU Free Documentation License before Wikipedia's founding at the urging of Richard Stallman.[17]
An early version of the site logo.
An early version of the site logo.

On January 10, 2001, Larry Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia.[18] Wikipedia was formally launched on January 15, 2001, as a single English-language edition at http://www.wikipedia.com/, and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.[19] Wikipedia's policy of "neutral point-of-view"[20] was codified in its initial months, and was similar to Nupedia's earlier "nonbiased" policy. Otherwise, there were relatively few rules initially and Wikipedia operated independently of Nupedia.[21] Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and search engine indexing. It grew to approximately 20,000 articles, and 18 language editions, by the end of 2001. It grew to 26 language editions by the end of 2002, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the end of 2004.[22] Nupedia and Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers went down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales are both the co-founders of Wikipedia.[2][23]

Although Wales is credited with defining the goal of making a publicly editable encyclopedia,[21] Sanger is usually credited with the strategy of using a wiki to reach that goal.[24]

Citing fears of commercial advertising and lack of control in a perceived English-centric Wikipedia, users of the Spanish Wikipedia forked from Wikipedia to create the Enciclopedia Libre in February 2002. Later that year, Wales announced that Wikipedia would not display advertisements, and its website was moved to wikipedia.org. Various other projects have since forked from Wikipedia for editorial reasons. Wikinfo does not require neutral point of view and allows original research. New Wikipedia-inspired projects — such as Citizendium, Scholarpedia and Amapedia — have been started to address perceived limitations of Wikipedia, such as its policies on peer review, original research and commercial advertising.
The number of English Wikipedia articles grew steadily from 2002 to 2006, with a doubling time of roughly 1 year.
The number of English Wikipedia articles grew steadily from 2002 to 2006, with a doubling time of roughly 1 year.[25]

The Wikimedia Foundation was created from Wikipedia and Nupedia on June 20, 2003.[26]

The Wikimedia Foundation applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Wikipedia® on September 17, 2004. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16, 2004 and in the European Union on January 20, 2005. Technically a service mark, the scope of the mark is for: "Provision of information in the field of general encyclopedic knowledge via the Internet". There are plans to license the usage of the Wikipedia trademark for some products, such as books or DVDs.[27]

As of 2007, English Wikipedia had over 1.7 million articles, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, eclipsing even the Yongle Encyclopedia (1407), which held the record for nearly 600 years.[28]

Historically, Wikipedia has been steadily gaining status since its inception. As of 2007, according to Alexa’s top 500 websites, by number of visitors, Wikipedia has become the tenth most visited website world-wide

Answer 10

search it in wikipedia u will get allllllllllllllllllllllll the facts for sure