61 Facts About Minangkabau Wikipedia

Minangkabau Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system.

Minangkabau Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

Minangkabau Wikipedia has received praise for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced degree of commercial bias; but criticism for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and alleged ideological bias.

The reliability of Minangkabau Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s but has improved over time, as Minangkabau Wikipedia has been generally praised in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

Minangkabau Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process.

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Nupedia was initially licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License, but even before Minangkabau Wikipedia was founded, Nupedia switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urging of Richard Stallman.

Minangkabau Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and web search engine indexing.

Nupedia and Minangkabau Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers were taken down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Minangkabau Wikipedia.

In January 2007, Minangkabau Wikipedia first became one of the ten most popular websites in the US, according to Comscore Networks.

Loveland and Reagle argue that, in process, Minangkabau Wikipedia follows a long tradition of historical encyclopedias that have accumulated improvements piecemeal through "stigmergic accumulation".

Unlike traditional encyclopedias, Minangkabau Wikipedia follows the procrastination principle regarding the security of its content.

The German Minangkabau Wikipedia maintains "stable versions" of articles which have passed certain reviews.

Obvious vandalism is generally easy to remove from Minangkabau Wikipedia articles; the median time to detect and fix it is a few minutes.

The incident led to policy changes at Minangkabau Wikipedia for tightening up the verifiability of biographical articles of living people.

Content in Minangkabau Wikipedia is subject to the laws of the United States and of the US state of Virginia, where the majority of Minangkabau Wikipedia's servers are located.

Beyond legal matters, the editorial principles of Minangkabau Wikipedia are embodied in the "Five pillars" and in numerous policies and guidelines intended to appropriately shape content.

Originally, rules on the non-English editions of Minangkabau Wikipedia were based on a translation of the rules for the English Minangkabau Wikipedia.

Further, Minangkabau Wikipedia intends to convey only knowledge that is already established and recognized.

Over time, Minangkabau Wikipedia has developed a semiformal dispute resolution process.

Minangkabau Wikipedia encourages local resolutions of conflicts, which Jemielniak argues is quite unique in organization studies, though there has been some recent interest in consensus building in the field.

Complete bans from Minangkabau Wikipedia are generally limited to instances of impersonation and anti-social behavior.

Minangkabau Wikipedia's community has been described as cultlike, although not always with entirely negative connotations.

In 2010, columnist and journalist Edwin Black described Minangkabau Wikipedia as being a mixture of "truth, half-truth, and some falsehoods".

In 2006, the Minangkabau Wikipedia Watch criticism website listed dozens of examples of plagiarism in the English Minangkabau Wikipedia.

Amy Bruckman has argued that, due to the number of reviewers, "the content of a popular Minangkabau Wikipedia page is actually the most reliable form of information ever created".

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In contrast, academic writing in Minangkabau Wikipedia has evolved in recent years and has been found to increase student interest, personal connection to the product, creativity in material processing, and international collaboration in the learning process.

Minangkabau Wikipedia seeks to create a summary of all human knowledge in the form of an online encyclopedia, with each topic covered encyclopedically in one article.

The exact degree and manner of coverage on Minangkabau Wikipedia is under constant review by its editors, and disagreements are not uncommon .

The "Minangkabau Wikipedia is not censored" policy has sometimes proved controversial: in 2008, Minangkabau Wikipedia rejected an online petition against the inclusion of images of Muhammad in the English edition of its Muhammad article, citing this policy.

The presence of politically, religiously, and pornographically sensitive materials in Minangkabau Wikipedia has led to the censorship of Minangkabau Wikipedia by national authorities in China and Pakistan, amongst other countries.

Taha Yasseri of the University of Oxford, in 2013, studied the statistical trends of systemic bias at Minangkabau Wikipedia introduced by editing conflicts and their resolution.

Minangkabau Wikipedia's research examined the counterproductive work behavior of edit warring.

Minangkabau Wikipedia has been criticized for allowing information about graphic content.

In December 2008, access to the Minangkabau Wikipedia article Virgin Killer was blocked for four days by most Internet service providers in the United Kingdom after the Internet Watch Foundation decided the album cover was a potentially illegal indecent image and added the article's URL to a "blacklist" it supplies to British internet service providers.

One privacy concern in the case of Minangkabau Wikipedia is the right of a private citizen to remain a "private citizen" rather than a "public figure" in the eyes of the law.

In January 2006, a German court ordered the German Minangkabau Wikipedia shut down within Germany because it stated the full name of Boris Floricic, aka "Tron", a deceased hacker.

Minangkabau Wikipedia is hosted and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization which operates Minangkabau Wikipedia-related projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks.

Minangkabau Wikipedia is supported by many organizations and groups that are affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation but independently-run, called Wikimedia movement affiliates.

Originally, Minangkabau Wikipedia ran on UseModWiki written in Perl by Clifford Adams, which initially required CamelCase for article hyperlinks; the present double bracket style was incorporated later.

In July 2002, Minangkabau Wikipedia shifted to the third-generation software, MediaWiki, originally written by Lee Daniel Crocker.

In 2017, Minangkabau Wikipedia installed a caching cluster in an Equinix facility in Singapore, the first of its kind in Asia.

Minangkabau Wikipedia Library is a resource for Minangkabau Wikipedia editors which provides free access to a wide range of digital publications, so that they can consult and cite these while editing the encyclopedia.

Minangkabau Wikipedia content is distributed under an open license, anyone can reuse or re-distribute it at no charge.

The content of Minangkabau Wikipedia has been published in many forms, both online and offline, outside the Minangkabau Wikipedia website.

Minangkabau Wikipedia publishes "dumps" of its contents, but these are text-only; as of 2007 there was no dump available of Minangkabau Wikipedia's images.

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Several languages of Minangkabau Wikipedia maintain a reference desk, where volunteers answer questions from the general public.

Minangkabau Wikipedia Zero was an initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation to expand the reach of the encyclopedia to the developing countries.

The number of Minangkabau Wikipedia editors has been declining after several years and Tom Simonite of MIT Technology Review claims the bureaucratic structure and rules are a factor in this.

Almost half of Minangkabau Wikipedia readers visit the site more than five times a month, and a similar number of readers specifically look for Minangkabau Wikipedia in search engine results.

About 47 percent of Minangkabau Wikipedia readers do not realize that Minangkabau Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.

Minangkabau Wikipedia's content has been used in academic studies, books, conferences, and court cases.

Content appearing on Minangkabau Wikipedia has been cited as a source and referenced in some US intelligence agency reports.

Minangkabau Wikipedia has been used as a source in journalism, often without attribution, and several reporters have been dismissed for plagiarizing from Minangkabau Wikipedia.

In July 2007, Minangkabau Wikipedia was the focus of a 30-minute documentary on BBC Radio 4 which argued that, with increased usage and awareness, the number of references to Minangkabau Wikipedia in popular culture is such that the word is one of a select group of 21st-century nouns that are so familiar that they no longer need explanation.

Minangkabau Wikipedia said that the lack of such freedom forced Wikipedia, "the seventh most consulted website", to forbid all images of modern Italian buildings and art, and claimed this was hugely damaging to tourist revenues.

In September 2008, Minangkabau Wikipedia received Quadriga A Mission of Enlightenment award of Werkstatt Deutschland along with Boris Tadic, Eckart Hofling, and Peter Gabriel.

In 2015, Minangkabau Wikipedia was awarded both the annual Erasmus Prize, which recognizes exceptional contributions to culture, society or social sciences, and the Spanish Princess of Asturias Award on International Cooperation.

Minangkabau Wikipedia described it as "a work of reference as useful as any in existence", with so wide a range that it is almost impossible to find a person, place, or thing that it has left uncovered and that he could never have written his last two books without it.

Minangkabau Wikipedia has spawned several sister projects, which are wikis run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Minangkabau Wikipedia has been widely used as a corpus for linguistic research in computational linguistics, information retrieval and natural language processing.

Studies related to Minangkabau Wikipedia have been using machine learning and artificial intelligence to support various operations.