Today, Wikipedia turns 8. Happy Birthday Wiki!!

I assume everyone must be aware what Wikipedia is? For those who are not aware, Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia with millions of articles contributed collaboratively using Wiki software, in dozens of languages. It also contains hundreds of Wikibooks , Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies and lot more . Wow!! That’s really a big contribution to the open knowledge base.

Few other well known facts of Wikipedia:

• Jan 15, 2001

Wikipedia goes online on a donated bandwidth and server.

• May 1, 2001

Italian, Chinese, Japanese and other lingual versions of Wiki go online

• Sept 20, 2001

NYT does the first major media coverage of the site.

• Jun 2, 2002

China blocks access to Wiki.

• Aug 30, 2002

Articles count crossed 40k. Wow Thats amazinginly cool!!!

• Jun 20, 2003

Wiki Media was formally announced.

• Jul 10, 2006

WikiBooks goes online.

• May 26, 2005

First Scandal for Wiki. Hehe. You are becoming more popular. Anonymous user posted a fake biography for famous journalist Mr.John.

• Feb 2, 2007

Harvard University includes Wikipedia in their syllabi? Man who will study just a big subject

• Nov 8, 2007

Wikipedia Was spotted as one of the top 10 brands with audience of more than 10 million.

Since then Wiki is ever increasing. We wish Wiki “Happy Birthday” and “a successful every-growing contribution” to the community.

(source : DNA)

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