Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español

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Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español
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Type of site
Wiki Internet encyclopedia
Available inSpanish
OwnerUniversity of Seville
Created byEdgar Enyedy
Websiteenciclopedia.us.es
Alexa rankNegative increase 15,172
CommercialNo
RegistrationNot required (although in some events unregistered users have to register to view and edit)
Users10 active contributors[1]
Launched26 February 2002; 22 years ago (2002-02-26)
Current statusOnline
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike 3.0
Written inMediaWiki, made in PHP

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish language wiki encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia.

History

The Enciclopedia Libre was founded by contributors to the Spanish-language Wikipedia who decided to start an independent project. Led by Edgar Enyedy, they left Wikipedia on 26 February 2002, and created the new website, provided by the University of Seville for free, with the freely licensed articles of the Spanish-language Wikipedia.[2]

The reasons for the split are explained on Enciclopedia Libre.[3] Key issues included concerns about censorship and the possibility of advertising on Wikipedia.[4] From the interview with Edgar Enyedy,[5] the main reasons for splitting at that time were:

  • Perceived expectation that Wikipedia would soon start hosting advertisements.[5]
  • Non-English Wikipedias were running older, less featured versions of MediaWiki. When national groups offered help in software development and maintenance, access to the servers was denied.
  • The downloadable database dumps of Wikipedia content were highly outdated.
  • Wikipedia was hosted on a .com rather than a .org domain.

Post-split history

In 2011, Enyedy said that the sole reason for the failure of Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español as a long term project was because it "was not intended to last. It was merely a form of pressure. Some of the goals were achieved, not all of them, but it was worth the cost."[6]

In 2011, Enyedy said "Nowadays, the romantic point of view is that EL survived and is still going strong."[6] He argued that while the viewpoint is positive, it is not factual.[6]

Statistics

While Enciclopedia Libre initially grew much more rapidly than the Spanish Wikipedia, the Spanish Wikipedia overtook it in 2004. Since then, the Spanish Wikipedia has grown at a much greater rate. As of December 2016, the Spanish Wikipedia hosts approximately twenty-six times as many articles as Enciclopedia Libre.

Historical article counts. The Spanish Wikipedia is shown in red; Enciclopedia Libre is blue.
Date Approximate number of entries in Enciclopedia Libre Approximate number of entries in the Spanish Wikipedia
11 March 2002 3,036 1,300
2 April 2002 5,972 1,300
1 May 2002 7,540 1,400
27 May 2002 7,837 1,500
13 June 2002 8,125 1,500
13 July 2002 8,519
4 August 2002 8,658 1,500
31 August 2002 8,996 1,500
3 October 2002 9,362 1,600
26 October 2002 10,258 1,900
17 June 2003 14,250 3,700
8 July 2003 14,428
2 August 2003 14,662 4,600
6 September 2003 15,116 5,900
2 November 2003 15,572 8,900
6 December 2003 16,039 11,000
20 March 2004 19,688 19,000
6 November 2004 25,038 33,573
25 September 2005 28,709 66,984
27 February 2006 30,455 97,568
9 April 2006 30,776 108,012
3 July 2006 31,980 130,939
1 October 2006 33,367 157,061
3 January 2007 34,342 186,022
1 April 2007 34,551 218,690
1 July 2007 35,703 248,775
2 October 2007 36,860 283,630
1 January 2008 38,012 315,611
2 April 2008 39,478 348,217
4 July 2008 40,424 376,664
3 October 2008 41,096 403,280
1 January 2009 41,852 430,159
1 April 2009 42,366 458,301
1 July 2009 42,533 488,905
1 October 2009 43,035 516,333
1 January 2010 44,156 546,487
1 April 2010 44,592 581,486
1 July 2010 45,170 615,232
1 October 2010 45,947 653,596
1 January 2011 46,374 692,451
2 April 2011 46,775 745,694
3 July 2011 47,150 785,900
2 October 2011 47,315 832,243
1 January 2012 47,638 856,400
2 April 2012 47,797 880,230
2 July 2012 47,937 900,861
2 October 2012 48,082 924,293
1 January 2013 48,050 945,476
2 April 2013 48,238 981,012
1 July 2013 48,116 1,026,688
1 October 2013 48,890 1,048,876
1 January 2014 48,953 1,068,019
1 April 2014 48,971 1,091,704
3 July 2014 49,026 1,110,208
10 October 2014 49,053 1,130,161
1 January 2015 49,055 1,147,397
2 April 2015 49,321 1,168,559
10 December 2016 49,923 1,302,340
Today statistics statistics
Date Approximate number of entries in Enciclopedia Libre Approximate number of entries in Spanish Wikipedia

See also

  • Susning.nu (Swedish)
  • Baike.com (Chinese)
  • Baidu Baike (Chinese)
  • List of online encyclopedias

References

  1. ↑ "Lista de usuarios activos". http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Especial:UsuariosActivos. Retrieved 2015-08-24. 
  2. ↑ Tkacz, Nathaniel (20 January 2011). "The Spanish Fork: Wikipedia's ad-fuelled mutiny". Wired UK. https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/wikipedia-spanish-fork. 
  3. ↑ Enciclopedia: Por qué estamos aquí y no en es.wikipedia.org (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. London: Aurum. p. 9. ISBN 9781845134730. OCLC 280430641. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nathaniel Tkacz (2011) The Spanish Fork: Wikipedia's ad-fuelled mutiny
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Tkacz, Nathaniel. "The Spanish Fork: Wikipedia's ad-fuelled mutiny." Wired. 20 January 2011. p. 2. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.

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