Wiki and Wikipedia
Wiki y Wikipedia
- Date
- 1995 · confidence high
- Place
- Portland, Oregon (WikiWikiWeb), and San Diego/St. Petersburg, Florida, United States (Wikipedia, 2001)
- Credited to
- Ward Cunningham (WikiWikiWeb, 1995); Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (Wikipedia, 2001)
- People
- 👤 Jimmy Wales1966–👤 Larry Sanger1968–👤 Ward Cunningham1949–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A website that any reader can edit from the browser, with a change history. Wikipedia turned it into the largest encyclopaedia in history, written by volunteers.
What it led to
- Open collaborative knowledge and the death of printed encyclopaedias
- The training data of language models
- Corporate wikis and collaborative documentation
Built on
Made possible
- OpenStreetMap2004
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- large language models (corpus)