How Wikipedia Was Created-Case Study
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Wikipedia is worlds biggest Encyclopedia and it’s happens to be free, if you type anything to google. Wikipedia gonna be one of the top result.
It’s maybe not most reliable source as it is run by volunteers generally anyone can edit the article. An average Wikipedia is edited 1.8 times per second. If you using the information for professional and academic you should double personal use nothing is better or even come close to how extensive wikipedia is. There are over 6 million articles and about 600 new added everyday in addition to the million articles are in different languages. There are almost 40 million registered users, and wikipedia is in one of the top website in alexa list of top websites. Other websites run ads to earn from it but you will never see this in wikipedia as it is a non-profit website but you will see some notice asking for donation and this where from wikipedia earn use it for the running of the website. And know we will talk about how this massive non-profitable online encyclopedia come to existence.
How Wikipedia Was Created
The main person behind wikipedia was Jimmy Wales, Jimmy was graduated from high school when went to study on finance collage where he earned his bachelor’s, master’s degree and was close to get his doctoral degree when he drooped his school to become a option trader which is a lucrative job(very profitable job).
After few years in 1996 he earned enough money to follow his passion and started his own internet company, he not started with wikipedia, not yet. His first business was founded with two other people which was called Bomis,It was lot like yahoo but intentionally gear towards man. It was lot lean towards cars, sports and for most of 18+ related content it was known as Bomis Babe Report.
Unlike Wikipedia Bomis did make profit for them, they sold ads ads made money from memberships at one point. In year 2000 by the profit of Bomis Jimmy decided to start a online encyclopedia and it was called Nupedia, it was a disaster.
Jimmy’s idea for starting a online encyclopedia was atleast partially influenced by what’s happening over a encyclopedia Britannica just registered there website as Britannica.com and it was a big deal as they were having trouble in selling there physical encyclopedia so they decided to go online and when it was launched the site was outrageously got popular, it was even crashed for few times because there was to much traffic. So there was a high demand for online encyclopedia.
After few years in 1996 he earned enough money to follow his passion and started his own internet company, he not started with wikipedia, not yet. His first business was founded with two other people which was called Bomis,It was lot like yahoo but intentionally gear towards man. It was lot lean towards cars, sports and for most of 18+ related content it was known as Bomis Babe Report.
