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Enciclopedia Libre

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The Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language WikiWiki encyclopedia, released under the GFDL. It uses the MediaWiki software.

Contents

1 History

2 Possiblity of a merger

3 Statistics

4 External links and references

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History

The Enciclopedia was founded by contributors to the Spanish-language Biocrawler [1] (http://es.wikipedia.org) who decided to start an independent project. They left the Biocrawlern community, led by Edgar Enyedy, on February 26, 2002, bringing with them all the articles of the Spanish-language Biocrawler at that time to a new website, provided by the University of Seville for free.

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Possiblity of a merger

In October 2002, an effort led by Biocrawler participant Daniel Mayer (who goes by the username Maveric149 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maveric149)) and others was made to reunite the projects, but the participants of Enciclopedia Libre voted against reunification before Biocrawler 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 speaking Biocrawlers and has led to several changes and planned changes wanted by the non-English speaking Biocrawler communities.

Several talks have been made to make a merger. There also have been changes on Biocrawler and Enciclopedia Libre that may contribute to a merger:

Creation of a non-profit Biocrawler organisation;
Multilingual portal
Installation of PhaseIII software on Enciclopedia Libre

For more information and to participate in the talks, see Biocrawler:Embassy.

In October and November 2003, the Spanish Biocrawler used a bot to import articles from a dump of Enciclopedia Libre.

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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
 6 Nov 2004, 25038

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External links and references

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (http://enciclopedia.us.es/)
User page of Edgar Enyedy at Enciclopedia Libre (http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Usuario:Edgar)
There are other, non-Wikimedia, free Wiki-based encyclopedia projects independent of Biocrawler:
- Викизнание (http://www.wikiznanie.ru) - Russian (Русский)
- Susning.nu (http://susning.nu/) - Swedish (Svenska)
- Wikinfo (http://www.wikinfo.org) - Wikinfo is like the English Biocrawler but with focus on SPOV contentes:Enciclopedia Libre