Enciclopedia Libre
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The Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language WikiWiki encyclopedia, released under the GFDL. It uses the MediaWiki software.
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History
The Enciclopedia was founded by contributors to the Spanish-language Wikipedia [1] (http://es.wikipedia.org) who decided to start an independent project. They left the Wikipedian community, led by Edgar Enyedy, on February 26, 2002, bringing with them all the articles of the Spanish-language Wikipedia at that time to a new website, provided by the University of Seville for free.
Possiblity of a merger
In October 2002, an effort led by Wikipedia participant Daniel Mayer (who goes by the username Maveric149 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maveric149)) and others was made to reunite the projects, but the participants of Enciclopedia Libre voted against reunification before Wikipedia could offer a reunification proposal. The users of Enciclopedia Libre did, however, leave open the possibility for a future merge and expressed an interest in maintaining lines of communication. This episode also sparked a great deal of discussion about the role of the non-English speaking Wikipedias and has led to several changes and planned changes wanted by the non-English speaking Wikipedia communities.
Several talks have been made to make a merger. There also have been changes on Wikipedia and Enciclopedia Libre that may contribute to a merger:
- Creation of a non-profit Wikipedia organisation;
- Multilingual portal
- Installation of PhaseIII software on Enciclopedia Libre
For more information and to participate in the talks, see Wikipedia:Embassy.
See also: Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination.
In October and November 2003, the Spanish Wikipedia used a bot to import articles from a dump of Enciclopedia Libre.
Statistics
Date # entries (conservative article count) 11 Mar 2002, 3036 20 Mar 2002, 4116 2 Apr 2002, 5972 1 May 2002, 7540 27 May 2002, 7837 13 Jun 2002, 8125 13 Jul 2002, 8519 4 Aug 2002, 8658 31 Aug 2002, 8996 13 Sep 2002, 9237 3 Oct 2002, 9362 26 Oct 2002, 10258 17 Jun 2003, 14250 8 Jul 2003, 14428 2 Aug 2003, 14662 6 Sep 2003, 15116 2 Nov 2003, 15572 6 Dec 2003, 16039 20 Mar 2004, 19688 6 Nov 2004, 25038
External links and references
- Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (http://enciclopedia.us.es/)
- User page of Edgar Enyedy at Enciclopedia Libre (http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Usuario:Edgar)
- There are other, non-Wikimedia, free Wiki-based encyclopedia projects independent of Wikipedia:
- Викизнание (http://www.wikiznanie.ru) - Russian (Русский)
- Susning.nu (http://susning.nu/) - Swedish (Svenska)
- Wikinfo (http://www.wikinfo.org) - Wikinfo is like the English Wikipedia but with focus on SPOV contentde:Enciclopedia Libre
es:Enciclopedia Libre fr:Enciclopedia Libre ja:エンサイクロペディア・リブレ