Spanish Wikipedia

Spanish Wikipedia is a Spanish language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started in May 2001, this edition reached 50,000 articles on May 30, 2005. Currently it is the 9th largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles. It was the 8th biggest edition for a long time, until the Portuguese language Wikipedia overtook it in May 2005.

Related Topics:
Spanish language - Wikipedia - Encyclopedia - May 2001 - May 30 - 2005 - Portuguese language Wikipedia

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In February 2002, most participants of the edition did not agree with the (later rejected) proposal to finance Wikipedia through advertising, and broke away to establish the Enciclopedia Libre fork. Because of this incident, all later proposals of financing Wikipedia through advertising has been quickly and firmly shot down by Wikipedia leader Jimbo Wales.

Related Topics:
February 2002 - Enciclopedia Libre - Fork - Jimbo Wales

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After the fork, the Spanish Wikipedia had very little activity until the upgrade to the Phase III of the software, later renamed MediaWiki, when the number of new users started to increase again. As of June 2005, the Spanish Wikipedia seems to be the more active of the two projects by far.

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