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1 Jimmy Wales started Nupedia
Jimmy Wales , Wikipedia's founder, started Nupedia which is a project similar to Wikipedia and had the goal of being an online encyclopedia, See Interview with Jimmy wales.
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2 Nupedia Didn't work because of bureaucracy
After sometime Nupedia only had 25 approved pages as the editing process was so slow and strict.
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3 Jimmy Wales thought the Wiki Model could work
Jimmy wales thought the Wiki model , where any person can write or edit, might work if applied to a new encyclopedia, See why people contribute to free sites.
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4 Wikipedia was started in 2001
According to Wikipedia the site was started in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
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5 Jimmy Wales made the first edit in Jan 2001
In 16th January 2001 Jimmy Wales made the first Wikipedia Entry. It was 'Hello World'
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6 By may 2001 Wikipedia has 3,900 articles
Wikipedia grew very fast as a result of Google's traffic and by may 2001 it had 3,900 articles, See Why Wikipedia is losing Google traffic.
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7 Wikipedia had many languages in 2001
In around March 2001 Wikipedia started including articles from other languages such as German and Japanese, See why we Speak different languages.
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8 Wikipedia had 20,000 after one year
After one year Wikipedia has around 20,000 articles.
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9 In March 2002 Larry Sanger Left
As a result of the dot com crash Larry Sanger left Wikipedia in March 2002.
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10 In 2003 the English section had 10,000 articles
By 2003 the English section of Wikipedia bypassed 100,000 articles.
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11 By the end of 2004 Wikipedia had 1 million pages
By the End of 2004 Wikipedia had more than 1 million entries in 100 different languages.
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12 Wikipedia Celebrated 1 billionth Edit
As Wikipedia kept growing by 2010 it celebrated 1 billionth Edit, See Why Wikipedia is non profit.
How Wikipedia started
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