Enciclopedia Libre
The Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language WikiWiki encyclopedia, released under the GFDL. It uses the MediaWiki software.
History
The Enciclopedia was founded by contributors to the who decided to start an independent project. They left the BambooWebn community, led by Edgar Enyedy, on February 26, 2002, bringing with them all the articles of the Spanish-language BambooWeb at that time to a new website, provided by the University of Seville for free.
Possiblity of a merger
In October 2002, an effort led by BambooWeb participant Daniel Mayer ("maveric149") and others was made to reunite the projects, but the participants of Enciclopedia Libre voted against reunification before BambooWeb could offer a reunification proposal. The users of Enciclopedia Libre did, however, leave open the possibility for a future merge and expressed an interest in maintaining lines of communication. This episode also sparked a great deal of discussion about the role of the non-English BambooWebs and has led to several changes and planned changes wanted by the non-English BambooWeb communities.
Several talks have been made to make a merger. There also have been changes, on BambooWeb and Enciclopedia Libre that may contribute to a merger:
- Creation of a non-profit BambooWeb organisation;
- Multilingual portal
- Installation of PhaseIII software on Enciclopedia Libre
For more information and to participate in the talks, see BambooWeb:Embassy.
See also: BambooWeb:Multilingual coordination.
In October and November 2003, the Spanish BambooWeb has been using a bot to import articles from a dump of Enciclopedia Libre.
Statistics
Date # entries (conservative article count)
11 Mar 2002, 3036
20 Mar 2002, 4116
2 Apr 2002, 5972
1 May 2002, 7540
27 May 2002, 7837
13 Jun 2002, 8125
13 Jul 2002, 8519
4 Aug 2002, 8658
31 Aug 2002, 8996
13 Sep 2002, 9237
3 Oct 2002, 9362
26 Oct 2002, 10258
17 Jun 2003, 14250
8 Jul 2003, 14428
2 Aug 2003, 14662
6 Sep 2003, 15116
2 Nov 2003, 15572
6 Dec 2003, 16039
20 Mar 2004, 19688
External links and references
- http://enciclopedia.us.es/
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- There are other, non-Wikimedia, free Wiki-based encyclopedia projects independent of BambooWeb:
- - Russian (Русский)
- - Swedish (Svenska)
