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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.
History
The Enciclopedia was founded by contributors to the Spanish-language Wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org) who decided to start an independent project. They left the Wikipedian community, led by Edgar Enyedy, on February 26, 2002, bringing with them all the articles of the Spanish-language Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia participant Daniel Mayer (who goes by the username "User: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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedias and has led to several changes and planned changes wanted by the non-English speaking Wikipedia communities.
Several talks have been made to make a merger. There also have been changes, on Wikipedia and Enciclopedia Libre that may contribute to a merger:
- Creation of a non-profit Wikipedia organisation;
- Multilingual portal
- Installation of PhaseIII software on Enciclopedia Libre
For more information and to participate in the talks, see Wikipedia:Embassy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Embassy).
See also: Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_coordination).
In October and November 2003, the Spanish Wikipedia used 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
6 Nov 2004, 25038
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