Enciclopedia Libre

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Espanol
Web address
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Wiki Internet encyclopedia
Registration	Not required
Available language(s)	Spanish
Users	~25 active users
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike
Written in	, made in PHP
Owner	University of Seville
Created by	Edgar Enyedy
Launched	26 February 2002 (2002-02-26) (12 years ago)
Alexa rank	15,172
Current status	Online

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español is a Spanish language wiki encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. It uses the software. It started as a fork of the Spanish World Heritage Encyclopedia.

1 History
2 Reasons for the split
3 Post-split history
4 Possibility of a merger
5 Statistics
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

History

The Enciclopedia Libre was founded by contributors to the Spanish-language World Heritage Encyclopedia who decided to start an independent project. Led by Edgar Enyedy, they left World Heritage Encyclopedia on 26 February 2002, and created the new website, provided by the University of Seville for free, with the freely licensed articles of the Spanish-language World Heritage Encyclopedia.^[1]

Reasons for the split

The reasons for the split are explained on Enciclopedia Libre.^[2] Key issues included concerns about censorship and the possibility of advertising on World Heritage Encyclopedia. From the interview with Edgar Enyedy,^[3] the main reasons for splitting at that time were:

Perceived expectation that World Heritage Encyclopedia would soon start hosting advertisements.
Non-English World Heritage Encyclopedias were running older, less featured versions of . When national groups offered help in software development and maintenance, access to the servers was denied.
The downloadable database dumps of World Heritage Encyclopedia content were highly outdated.
World Heritage Encyclopedia was hosted on .com rather than .org domain.

Post-split history

In 2011 Enyedy said that the sole reason for the failure of Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español as a long term project was because it "was not intended to last. It was merely a form of pressure. Some of the goals were achieved, not all of them, but it was worth the cost."^[4]

In 2011 Enyedy said "Nowadays, the romantic point of view is that EL survived and is still going strong."^[4] He argued that while the viewpoint is positive, it is not factual.^[4]

Possibility of a merger

In October 2002, an effort led by World Heritage Encyclopedia editor Daniel Mayer (whose username is Maveric149) and others was made to reunite the projects, but the participants of Enciclopedia Libre voted against reunification before World Heritage Encyclopedia could offer a reunification proposal. The users of Enciclopedia Libre did, however, leave open the possibility for a future merger and expressed an interest in maintaining lines of communication.

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

Creation of a non-profit World Heritage Encyclopedia organization, known as Foundation;
Multilingual portal
Installation of software on Enciclopedia Libre, so running the same wiki engine as World Heritage Encyclopedia.

Statistics

While Enciclopedia Libre initially grew much more rapidly than the Spanish World Heritage Encyclopedia, the Spanish World Heritage Encyclopedia overtook it in 2004. Since then, the Spanish World Heritage Encyclopedia has grown at a much greater rate. As of October 2011, the Spanish World Heritage Encyclopedia hosts approximately eighteen times as many articles as Enciclopedia Libre.

Date	Approximate number of entries in Enciclopedia Libre	Approximate number of entries in the Spanish World Heritage Encyclopedia
11 March 2002	3,036	1,300
2 April 2002	5,972	1,300
1 May 2002	7,540	1,400
27 May 2002	7,837	1,500
13 June 2002	8,125	1,500
13 July 2002	8,519	1,500
4 August 2002	8,658	1,500
31 August 2002	8,996	1,500
3 October 2002	9,362	1,600
26 October 2002	10,258	1,900
17 June 2003	14,250	3,700
8 July 2003	14,428	3,700
2 August 2003	14,662	4,600
6 September 2003	15,116	5,900
2 November 2003	15,572	8,900
6 December 2003	16,039	11,000
20 March 2004	19,688	19,000
6 November 2004	25,038	33,573
25 September 2005	28,709	66,984
27 February 2006	30,455	97,568
9 April 2006	30,776	108,012
3 July 2006	31,980	130,939
1 October 2006	33,367	157,061
3 January 2007	34,342	186,022
1 April 2007	34,551	218,690
1 July 2007	35,703	248,775
2 October 2007	36,860	283,630
1 January 2008	38,012	315,611
2 April 2008	39,478	348,217
4 July 2008	40,424	376,664
3 October 2008	41,096	403,280
1 January 2009	41,852	430,159
1 April 2009	42,366	458,301
1 July 2009	42,533	488,905
1 October 2009	43,035	516,333
1 January 2010	44,156	546,487
1 April 2010	44,592	581,486
1 July 2010	45,170	615,232
1 October 2010	45,947	653,596
1 January 2011	46,374	692,451
2 April 2011	46,775	745,694
3 July 2011	47,150	785,900
2 October 2011	47,315	832,243
1 January 2012	47,638	856,400
2 April 2012	47,797	880,230
2 July 2012	47,937	900,861
2 October 2012	48,082	924,293
1 January 2013	48,050	945,476
2 April 2013	48,238	981,012
1 July 2013	48,116	1.026.688
1 October 2013	48,890	1.048.876
Today	statistics	statistics
Date	Approximate number of entries in Enciclopedia Libre	Approximate number of entries in Spanish World Heritage Encyclopedia

References

External links

Alvarez, Carlos El País. 29 December 2005.(Spanish)

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