FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE Of JACKSONVILLE

ISM 3013INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

MANAGEMENT

Professor: Rosalyn Amaro

By: Aurdry Johnson

November 21, 2014

. Nupedia was founded by Jimmy Wales, with

Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief, and funded by

the web-advertising company Bomis

In December 2008, Wales stated that he made

Wikipedia's first edit, a test edit with the text

"Hello, World!".

The existence of the project was formally

announced and an appeal for volunteers to

engage in content creation was made to the

Nupedia mailing list on 17 January

The project received many new participants after

being mentioned on the Slashdot website in July

2001, having already earned two minor mentions in

March 2001

Between these relatively rapid influxes of

traffic, there had been a steady stream of

traffic from other sources, especially Google,

which alone sent hundreds of new visitors to

the site every day

Its first major mainstream media coverage was in

the New York Times on Thursday 20 September 2001.

The project gained its 1,000th article around Monday

12 February 2001, and reached 10,000 articles

around 7 September..

In the first year of its existence, over 20,000

encyclopedia entries were created – a rate of over

1,500 articles per month. On Friday 30 August 2002,

the article count reached 40,000.

The Wikipedia project has grown rapidly in the

course of its life, at several levels. Content has

grown organically through the addition of new

articles, new wikis have been added in English and

non-English languages.

Wikipedia itself has grown, with the creation of

the Wikimedia Foundation to act as an umbrella body

and the growth of software and policies to address

the needs of the editorial community

Wikipedia is used in most developed countries

The 250 language editions of Wikipedia contained a

combined total of 7.5 million articles, totaling

1.74 billion words in approximately 250 languages, by

13 August

The Arbitration Committee of the English

Wikipedia decided in May 2009 to restrict access to its

site from Church of Scientology IP addresses, to

prevent self-serving edits by

Scientologists. Wikipedia content became licensed

under Creative Commons in 2009.

On 24 March, the European Wikipedia servers

went offline due to an overheating problem.

The problem was resolved quickly, but due to DNS

caching effects, some areas were slower to regain

access to Wikipedia than others.

Wikipedia and its users held hundreds

of celebrations worldwide to

commemorate the site's 10th

anniversary on 15 January.

Also in October 2011, Wikimedia announced the launch

of Wikipedia Zero, an initiative to enable free mobile

access to Wikipedia in developing countries through

partnerships with mobile operators

On 13 July 2012, the English Wikipedia gained its 4-

millionth article, Izbat al-Burj. In October 2012,

historian and Wikipedia editor Richard Jensen stated

that the English Wikipedia was "nearing completion.”

In April 2013, the French secret service was

accused of attempting to censor Wikipedia by

threatening a Wikipedia volunteer with arrest

unless "classified information" about a military

radio station was deleted.

As of November 2014, Wikipedia is the world's

sixth-most-popular website according to Alexa

Internet, and is the largest general-knowledge

encyclopedia online.

On average, Wikipedia receives a total of

10 billion global page views from around

495 million unique visitors every

month, including 85 million visitors from

the United States alone.

On average, the Main Page of the English

Wikipedia alone receives approximately

8 million global page views every day

On October 22, 2014, the first monument to Wikipedia will be

unveiled in the Polish town of Slubice

Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden is an American computer

professional who leaked classified information from the

National Security Agency, starting in June 2013

On June 14 the U.S. Department of

Justice charged him with two counts of

violating the Espionage Act and theft of

government property, punishable by up

to 30 years in prison

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward Snowden

"Everybody Knows Everything", Jeremy Philips, The Wall

Street Journal, March 18, 2009

"Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City", Noam Cohen, New York

Times, March 28, 2009