The creator of Wikipedia at the inauguration of the Science Week

2007/11/06 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia

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American Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of the free encyclopedia Wikipedia, offered a conference on Monday at the Miñano Technology Park. The event was attended by the lehendakari Juan José Ibarretxe and the director of Innobasque, Pedro Luis Uriarte. Inauguration of the week.

Wikipedia has acquired a great reputation on the Internet by introducing a new concept in the products on the network. Wales summarizes and shows his philosophy in the following sentence:

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we are doing. (Imagine a world in which all people have access to all human knowledge. That's what we're doing).

The Encyclopedia Wikipedia was born with this utopia in the head and currently has more than 8 million articles in 253 languages. According to data from Wales, the Basque version had 21,214 articles on the day of the inauguration. He compared with the Hindi language; being much more speakers, the number of Hindu articles was 14.205. "Of course there are many reasons for this to be so," he said.

In addition to the wikipedia, Wales spoke of the Wikia project, a project that disseminates the idea of free encyclopedia to other types of information. Wikia is a project that serves to spread free software. Wiki is underway, with more than 3,000 topics on the Internet.