In this week’s broadcast I discuss about the Wikipedia, the largest encyclopaedia ever written. The broadcast is in Catalan language
Writing an encyclopaedia is not an easy task, especially if you try to do it on your own. But if you invite all your internet pals to contribute with their articles, the task becomes more feasible.
This was the vision of Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia, who in 2001 opened his online encyclopaedia to public participation.
In his own words “[Wikipedia is] an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.”
Today the Wikipedia receives some 60 milion visits a day, has more than 1,6 milion articles in 200 languages, 100 of which are active.
English has the most entries with 670.415, Spanish comes 9th with 58.829 and Catalan has 16.398 entries.
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