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The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 2,007,058 articles. It has 2,007,058 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013.
A celebration of El Día E in Moscow, 2009. El Día E ('E-Day') or El Día del Español ('Spanish Language Day') is a festive commemoration promoted by the Instituto Cervantes since 2009, which takes place on the Saturday closest to the solstice of June, and whose objective is to spread the culture of Spanish, celebrate its importance in the world and foster the unity of its speakers.
The foundation operates 11 wiki-based content projects that are written and governed by volunteer editors. They include, by launch date: Wikipedia – online encyclopedia; Wiktionary – online dictionary and thesaurus; Wikibooks – a collection of books, mostly textbooks; Wikiquote – a collection of quotations; Wikivoyage – travel guide
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 [20] (referred to as Wikipedia Day) as a single English-language edition with the domain name www.wikipedia.com, [W 6] and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. [22] The name originated from a blend of the words wiki and encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and millions already have. Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by presenting information on all branches of knowledge. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia consists of freely editable content, with articles that usually contain numerous links guiding readers to more ...
Wikipedia holidays, or the Order of the Day, consist of Wikipedia's founding day of January 15 and four Wikipedia awards bestowed honoris causa by Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, the site's 2001 co-founder. With the motto "We make the Internet not suck" derived from a 2005 interview with Wales, four of the five holidays celebrate specific developers and ...
The English Wikipedia gained articles at a steady rate of 1,700 a day, [91] with the wikipedia.org domain name ranked the 10th-busiest in the world. Wikipedia continued to garner visibility in the press – the Essjay controversy broke out when a prominent member of Wikipedia was found to have lied about his credentials.
The table below lists the featured articles for a given "foreign-" (i.e., non-English-)language Wikipedia initially sorted by the number of corresponding articles in other Wikipedias. The "Languages" column indicates the number of articles on all Wikipedias corresponding to the other-language featured article; the "#" column provides a ranking ...