Bratz

Although good in animation, the stories seem to lack substance and fails to keep the attention of the viewers. Here is a list of alternate spellings for Wikipedia according to the language editions:. The series follows the Bratz through their adventures in high school while working on their magazine (the real Bratz magazine hit newsstands as well: $54.90 for 13 issues) and fighting off Burdine's interns, the twins Kirstee and Kaycee, who the Bratz refer to collectively as the "Tweevils". These include:. The show features Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha, and Jade as the main characters. All of them are multilingual, free-content wikis and administered by the Wikimedia Foundation. In September 2005 a computer animated series based on the Bratz line of dolls began airing on 4Kids TV. Wikipedia has several sister projects that fulfill non-encyclopedic roles.

Featuring the voices of Wendie Malick as the antagonist Burdine Maxwell, Tia Mowry as Sasha, Soleil Moon Frye as Jade, Olivia Hack as Cloe, Lacey Chabert as Kirstee, and Kaley Cuoco as Kaycee. Its founder has replied that it is not intended as one, though that is a consequence.^[26]. The subsequent Twiins releases moved away from this theme (Nona is the center of attention while Tess is the free spirit who does things her way; Valentina is a stylish fashion designer and Oriana is an edgy rock musician), though both new sets recycled the angel and devil keychains first included with Phoebe and Roxxi, to the dismay of some collectors. Former Wikipedia editor-in-chief Larry Sanger has said that having the GFDL license as a "guarantee of freedom is a strong motivation to work on a free encyclopedia."^[24] In a study of Wikipedia as a community, Economics professor Andrea Ciffolilli argued that the low transaction costs of participating in wiki software create a catalyst for collaborative development, and that a "creative construction" approach encourages participation.^[25] Wikipedia has been viewed as a social experiment in anarchy or democracy. When the first set of Twiins was released, Phoebe and Roxxi looked exactly the same, though Phoebe was presented as the "Good Girl" and Roxxi was the "Lil' Devil," reflecting the somewhat hackneyed theme of good twin/evil twin. Vandalism or the minor infraction of policies may result in a warning or temporary block, while long-term or permanent blocks for prolonged and serious infractions are given by Jimmy Wales or, on its English edition, an elected Arbitration Committee. Other issues include Jade from the Style It collection, whose alternate shirt featured a Chinese take-out box with a Japanese flag on it; Sasha, a dark-skinned character, was said on early boxes to be interested in hip-hop music, potentially supporting a stereotype of African-Americans. Many users have been temporarily or permanently blocked from editing Wikipedia.

As of this writing, May Lin has yet to appear in another Bratz collection, and is probably unlikely to be produced ever again. Administrators are the largest such group, privileged with the ability to prevent articles from being edited, delete articles, or block users from editing in accordance with community policy. On top of that, her name is misspelled; a more appropriate spelling would have been something like "Meilin" or "Mei-lin." This made it appear that the design team had not properly researched appropriate names for the doll (as they had for Kumi, who was introduced as a kimono doll) and merely picked a name that would be perceived to be Japanese by the general public (and thereby perpetuating misconceptions about the Chinese and Japanese cultures being one and the same), which did not sit well with more cognizant collectors. Maintenance tasks are performed by a group of volunteer developers, stewards, bureaucrats, and administrators, which number in the hundreds. May Lin sparked a bit of controversy because her name is Chinese, yet the doll was portrayed as Japanese. According to Wikimedia, one-quarter of Wikipedia's traffic comes from users without accounts, who are less likely to be editors.^[23]. Bratz fans appreciate that the dolls feature characters of many ethnicities, most of no specific background, and that each is given her own name and set of clothing and accessories, instead of the long-time practice of doll manufacturers making their blonde and African-American dolls variants of the same character. During January 2005, Wikipedia had about 13,000 or more users who made at least five edits that month; 9,000 of these active users worked on its three largest language editions.^[22] A more active group of about 3,000 users made more than 100 edits per month, over half of these users having worked in the three largest editions.

Others still are just glad to see their older children still finding dolls relevant in their lives; some parents even enjoy collecting Bratz themselves. Awards to the Wikipedia project and press clippings are listed by Wikimedia contributors on its website. Others also praise the Bratz for breaking down female stereotypes reinforced by many other dolls, such as the fairy-tale princess or bride. Wikipedia has received plaudits from sources including BBC News, Washington Post, The Economist, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Science, The Guardian, Chicago Sun-Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, The Financial Times, Time Magazine, Irish Times, Reader's Digest and The Daily Telegraph. On the other hand, since Bratz have natural leg lengths, large hips, and very modest chests, some parents are happy to see that dolls with what they perceive to be a more realistic body image are becoming popular. This award, normally given to individuals for great contributions to the Web in Japanese, was accepted by a long-standing contributor on behalf of the project. In actuality, the fabric piece under the Bratz Babyz' skirts (as well as those of the regular and Lil' Bratz) is merely functional, preventing the skirts from riding up over the hips of the doll. In September 2004, the Japanese Wikipedia was awarded a Web Creation Award from the Japan Advertisers Association.

The Bratz Babyz were not immune to complaints, either, especially the "Babyz Night Out" fashion pack, the "Brattoo Parlor" playset, and the fact that the Big Babyz wear something under their skirts that looks like a thong. Wikipedia was also nominated for a "Best Practices" Webby. They also took issue with the accessories that appeared to be champagne bottles and glasses and called for MGA to recall or otherwise remove the dolls from the market. The second was a Judges' Webby award for the "community" category. The group complained that the dolls sent a negative message "forcing" young girls to grow up too soon, while allegedly promoting the idea of sneaking out of the house to go on blind dates with complete strangers. Wikipedia won two major awards in May 2004^[21]: The first was a Golden Nica for Digital Communities, awarded by Prix Ars Electronica; this came with a 10,000 euro grant and an invitation to present at the PAE Cyberarts Festival in Austria later that year. An opaque window showing the Boyz' feet would clue which Boyz doll it was, especially during the quest for the exclusive Bryce doll, available in only 1 of every 24 boxes. Wikipedia related communities, such as The Wikipedia Review, whose members tend to dislike Wikipedia, also exist.

The dolls were packaged with a Bratz girl on the left (Cloe, Yasmin, Jade, Meygan or Nevra) and matched with a mystery Boyz doll behind the door on the right side of the box. Also see Asking questions and Getting in touch. The parental group Dads and Daughters was outraged by the release of the Bratz Secret Date collection. That is, authors can be asked to defend or clarify their work, and disputes are readily seen.^[20] Wikipedia editions also often contain reference desks in which the community answers questions. [1]. In a page on researching with Wikipedia, its authors argue that Wikipedia is valuable for being a social community. Others have claimed that each of the Bratz seem to have very shallow personalities of their own, with only superficial things such as clothes differentiating one from another. Emigh and Herring argue that "a few active users, when acting in concert with established norms within an open editing system, can achieve ultimate control over the content produced within the system, literally erasing diversity, controversy, and inconsistency, and homogenizing contributors' voices." Editors on Wikinfo, a fork of Wikipedia, similarly argue that new or controversial editors to Wikipedia are often unjustly labeled "trolls" or "problem users" and blocked from editing.^[18] Its community has also been criticized for responding to complaints regarding an article's quality by advising the complainer to fix the article.^[19].

Some say that Bratz dolls' bodies look like those of anorexic women. The Wikipedia community consists of users who are proportionally few, but highly active. They also claim the commercials show 11-year-olds wearing lots of makeup and scantily clad and insist that the Bratz are at least partially responsible for the moral decay of today's youth (Such as "Above all else, BE BEAUTIFUL!", a line found on the website). While limited to science-based articles, the study reveals the substantial effectiveness of the peer-reviewed system utilized by Wikipedia. Some parents have criticized the Bratz for being "unrealistic" and claim they promote materialism and consumerism. Of eight "serious errors" found — including misinterpretations of important concepts — four came from each source. Bratz Boyz. The average scientific entry in Wikipedia contained four errors or omissions, while Britannica had three.

Bratz Girlz. However, in a study conducted by the journal Nature, making side-by-side comparisons of articles covering a broad swath of the scientific spectrum contained in Wikipedia with those found in Encyclopædia Britannica, found that the accuracy of the two databases is essentially the same. A list of past and current Bratz doll names:. This led to the decision to restrict the ability to start articles to registered users. The DVD, Rock Angelz, was released in September 2005 and showcased the Bratz in a computer-animated adventure as they started up their own fashion magazine. found that his biography had been vandalized. The third person adventure game allowed the player to customize one of the Bratz girls while following them around the world to investigate stories for Bratz Magazine. At the end of 2005, controversy erupted after journalist John Seigenthaler Sr.

The videogame of the same name was released on various gaming platforms. The journal Nature reported in 2005 that science articles in Wikipedia are comparable in accuracy to those in Encyclopedia Britannica (Wikipedia has an average of four mistakes per article; Britannica contains three) ^[17] (Nature, 438, pp 900-901, 15 December 2005). The single "So Good" reached #14 on the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart and #23 on the UK Singles Chart the same year. In overall score, Wikipedia was rated 3.6 out of 5 points ("B-"), Brockhaus Premium 3.3, and Microsoft Encarta 3.1.^[15] In an analysis of online encyclopedias, Indiana University professors Emigh and Herring wrote that "Wikipedia improves on traditional information sources, especially for the content areas in which it is strong, such as technology and current events."^[16]. The CD, Rock Angelz, reached #79 on the US Billboard 200 in 2005, credited to Bratz Rock Angelz. The German computing magazine c't performed a comparison of Brockhaus Premium, Microsoft Encarta, and Wikipedia in October 2004: Experts evaluated 66 articles in various fields. Many tie-in products were also released, including boomboxes, CD towers, guitars, and fashion accessories. Encarta Feedback allows any user to propose revisions for review by their staff.^[14].

Bratz Cloe, Yasmin, Jade, Sasha, and Roxxi (sold exclusively with the Rock Angelz Concert Stage) were dressed in 70's inspired rock attire, and each girl had a guitar and a mini CD single including 2 songs (one character exclusive song and the other 'So Good' the lead single). Microsoft Encarta has started to solicit comments from readers in attempt to improve the accuracy and timeliness of its encyclopedia. During fall 2005, MGA released their flagship collection, Bratz Rock Angelz. Its editors have also argued that, as a website, Wikipedia is able to include articles on a greater number of subjects than print encyclopedias may.^[13]. In August of 2004, a straight to video animated movie, Bratz, the video: Starrin & Stylin', was released. For example, the then-new article on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on its English edition was cited often by the press shortly after the incident. In addition to the dolls, the Bratz line includes playsets, vehicles, accessories, Lil Bratz, the Bratz Babyz, plush Petz, ("Catz", "Dogz" and "Foxz"), collectible posters and a video game. It has been praised for, as a wiki, allowing articles to be updated or created in response to current events.

To date, Yasmin, Cloe, and Meygan have been made as Big Bratz. These problems have had a negative impact on Wikipedia's desired image as a fast and reliable source of information. Introduced in 2003 with Yasmin and adding a member of the Bratzpack annually, the limited edition dolls come with a certificate of authenticity and are dressed in fall/winter fashions showcasing the girl's passion for fashion. The English-language website also suffers from frequent timeouts, server errors and occasional downtime due to heavy user traffic. A special collector's edition called Big Bratz features 2 foot tall versions of the Bratz. The entry on Hurricane Frances is five times the length of that on Chinese art, and the entry on Coronation Street is twice as long as the article on Tony Blair."^[11] (Note that this is not true anymore as of December 2005.) Former Nupedia editor-in-chief Larry Sanger stated in 2004, "when it comes to relatively specialized topics (outside of the interests of most of the contributors), the project's credibility is very uneven."^[12]. 2005 collections include Sportz (each Bratz girl dressed for her favorite sport, with coordinating accessories), I-Candy (neon, candy colored outfits and matching painted legs), Live In Concert/ Space Angelz Pop Stars (out-of-this-world space suits, headsets, anime eyes and wild matching make-up; included with the dolls was the CD single "Bein' Who We Are"), Treasures! ("Rogue Vogue" pirate style, complete with a treasure chest), DynaMite (vinyl catsuits and stiletto boots reminiscent of The Matrix or Charlie's Angels), Rock It! (boys only), Step Out! (celebrating the Bratz 5th anniversary and included a rubber bracelet; proceeds helped benefit the Step Out 2 Help Out foundation), Step Off! (the Boyz dressed in repeat Funk Out! fashions), Birthday Bash (80's inspired party dresses and leggings, plus a doll-sized gift bag/box), Campfire (warm winter camping gear and furry boots), Midnight Dance (a goth-esque collection with capes and detailed masks), Hollywood Style (dressed for a Hollywood premiere in repeat Bratz formal fashions), Wild Wild West (which included cowboy boots, cowboy hats, denim and suede inspired looks and big belt buckles), and Rock Angelz (the flagship line for the year). Encyclopædia Britannica editor-in-chief Dale Hoiberg has argued that "people write of things they're interested in, and so many subjects don't get covered; and news events get covered in great detail.

The Ooh La La dolls also included a matching pot of lip gloss for the owner. Wikipedia has been accused of deficiencies in comprehensiveness because of its voluntary nature, and of reflecting the systemic biases of its contributors. Ooh La La featured the return of Kumi, and the dolls in the series were dressed in berets, houndstooth and floral prints, jewel tones, and painted-on gloves and stockings. Referencing Linus' law of open-source development, Sanger stated earlier: "Given enough eyeballs, all errors are shallow."^[8] Technology figure Joi Ito wrote on Wikipedia's authority, "[a]lthough it depends a bit on the field, the question is whether something is more likely to be true coming from a source whose resume sounds authoritative or a source that has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people (with the ability to comment) and has survived."^[9] Conversely, in an informal test of Wikipedia's ability to detect misinformation, its author remarked that its process "isn't really a fact-checking mechanism so much as a voting mechanism", and that material which did not appear "blatantly false" may be accepted as true.^[10]. Fabulous saw the return of Tiana, and the wardrobe included fur coats, bra tops, miniskirts, and snakeskin boots. Wikipedia's editing process assumes that exposing an article to many users will result in accuracy. Two lines which were not officially part of the Bratz World series, but carry on the Bratz World theme are Fabulous, a Las Vegas-inspired line, and Ooh La La, which is set in Paris. Former Nupedia editor-in-chief Larry Sanger criticized Wikipedia in late 2004 for having, according to Sanger, an "anti-elitist" philosophy of active contempt for expertise.^[7].

Each doll came with a pet; the girls each had a dog, and the boys each had a cat. Aaron Krowne wrote a rebuttal article in which he criticized McHenry's methods, and labeled them "FUD," the marketing technique of "fear, uncertainty, and doubt."^[6]. Punks had the Bratz dressed in London punk-culture attire, including studded and buckled vinyl jackets, wild hair colors and styles, and dark makeup contrasting with paler skin tones. In this way a reader can know "who has used the facilities before him" and how long the community has had to process the information in an article to provide calibration on the "sense of security." However, these proposals for provenance are quite controversial (see Wikipedia talk:Provenance). Tokyo A-Go-Go Bratz had anime-style eyes, Tokyo-inspired fashions, wildly colored, micro-braided hair, and "cyberpet" companions. The idea is to provide source provenance on each interval of text in an article and temporal provenance as to its vintage. The Bratz World concept has taken the dolls to Tokyo, in the Tokyo-A-Go-Go collection, and London in the Punkz (boys only) and Pretty n' Punk line, with themed fashions and playsets to match. In response to this criticism, proposals have been made to provide various forms of provenance for material in Wikipedia articles; see for example Wikipedia:Provenance.

Other dolls released through the years include collectible keychains, ornaments, accessories and make-up. In a 2004 piece called "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia," former Britannica editor Robert McHenry criticized the wiki approach, writing,. Collectible posters have been included with the Bratz since 2001, and collectible cards were introduced during 2004. However, these links are offered as background sources for the reader, not as sources used by the writer, and the "enhanced perspectives" are not intended to serve as reference material themselves. A variety of Bratz Head Gamez fashion heads were sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, and a gift set complete with one body, four heads and four separate fashion looks was released to the general market. The first of these perspectives to provide a hyperlink to Wikipedia was "A White Collar Protein Senses Blue Light" (Linden, 2002), and dozens of enhanced perspectives have provided such links since then. The unique Head Gamez line moved the Bratz' snap-on feature one step further by allowing the consumer to customize their own Bratz by snapping the Bratz head on and off a specially designed body. Wikipedia articles have been referenced in "enhanced perspectives" provided on-line in Science.

'Real' eyelashes first appeared in the Girls Nite Out collection, then again in the Wild Wild West collection and on Holiday Katia. Academic circles have not been exclusively dismissive of Wikipedia as a reference. Budget lines include I-Candy and Hollywood Style, which feature the Bratz in one outfit with minimal accessories. Discussing Wikipedia as an academic source, danah boyd said in 2005 that "[i]t will never be an encyclopedia, but it will contain extensive knowledge that is quite valuable for different purposes"^[4]. Each collection has brought in new shoe styles and accessories (Bratz with pierced ears began with the release of Funk Out! and the new "ring" accessory was introduced in the Step Out! line). That premise is completely unproven."^[3] On October 24, 2005, The Guardian published an article "Can you trust Wikipedia?" where a group of experts critically reviewed entries for their fields. The basic lines such as Flaunt It!, Xpress It!, Funk Out! and Step Out! feature the Bratz with two complete mix and matchable outfits. Similarly, Encyclopædia Britannica's executive editor, Ted Pappas, was quoted in The Guardian as saying: "The premise of Wikipedia is that continuous improvement will lead to perfection.

Every year, the Bratz collections include a "basic" line, at least one or two budget collections, and at least two or three feature collections. But with something like this, all that goes out the window"(Waldman, 2004). New members of the Bratzpack to debut in 2006 include Lilee (the 2006 Sweet Heart) and Leah (Midnight Dance wave 2). With printed publications, the publishers have to ensure that their data is reliable, as their livelihood depends on it. Character May Lin was only produced once, as a special collector doll wearing a kimono as part of the Tokyo-A-Go-Go collection. The main problem is the lack of authority. Oriana and Valentina were later joined by their identical triplet sister, Sierrna, in a special "Triiiplets" set. In a 2004 interview with The Guardian, librarian Philip Bradley said that he would not use Wikipedia and is "not aware of a single librarian who would.

Three sets of "Twiins" Roxxi and Phoebe, Tess and Nona, and Oriana and Valentina have also joined the Bratz Pack. Wikipedia contains no formal peer review process for fact-checking, and the editors themselves may not be well-versed in the topics they write about. Over the course of the lines that followed, Meygan (who "moved away" for a while and then came back), Dana, Fianna, Nevra, Tiana, Kumi, Felicia, Katia, and Kiana have joined the "Bratz Pack," most of whom were introduced either with playsets or as collector's edition dolls. Some argue that allowing anyone to edit makes Wikipedia an unreliable work. The original 8 characters were Yasmin (based on CEO Isaac Larian's own daughter, Jasmin), Sasha, Cloe and Jade. An entire website called Wikipedia Watch has been created to denounce Wikipedia as having "...a massive, unearned influence on what passes for reliable information.". Bratz dolls are characterized by an oversized head with large eyes and lips, a small body and shoes that snap on and off. It is considered to have no or limited utility as a reference work among many librarians, academics, and the editors of more formally written encyclopedias.

. Wikipedia has been criticized for a perceived lack of reliability, comprehensiveness, and authority. They are created in both sexes, "Bratz Boyz" having followed Bratz "girls" shortly after the girl dolls entered the toy market. Proponents contend that open editing improves quality over time while critics allege that non-expert editing undermines quality. Bratz is the name of a line of 9.5 inch dolls produced by MGA Entertainment, starting at the end of 2001. Wikipedia has been both praised and criticized for being open to editing by anyone. Zack, (?) (Alek's twin) He has brown hair and green eyes. Wikipedia is criticised on the following issues:.

Alek, (?) (Zack's twin) He has brown hair and green eyes. Notable criticisms include that its open nature makes Wikipedia unauthoritative and unreliable, that Wikipedia exhibits systemic bias and that the group dynamics of its community are hindering its goals. Iden, (?) He has golden brown hair. Critics of Wikipedia include Wikipedia editors themselves, ex-editors, representatives of other encyclopedias, and even subjects of the articles. Bryce, (?) He has blonde hair with green eyes. Criticism of Wikipedia has increased with its prominence. Koby, "The Panther" He has brown hair with fair skin. Information related to evaluations of Wikipedia, including individual opinions, quality control, and awards are discussed below.

Cameron, "The Blaze" He has blonde hair with blue eyes. This is seen in articles and discussion venues both within Wikipedia and elsewhere. Eitan, "The Dragon" He has Black hair with blonde streaks. Wikipedia's claimed status as an encyclopedia has been increasingly controversial as it has gained prominence. Dylan, "The Fox" He has brown hair with dark skin. Bomis, an on-line advertising company that hosts mostly adult-oriented web-rings, played a significant part in the early development of Wikipedia. Cade, "The Viper" He has dark brown hair and brown eyes. [2].

Lilani, "Sweet Swan" (Kiani's sister) She has brown hair and brown eyes. It's 4th Quarter 2005 costs were $321,000 dollars with hardware making up almost 60% of the budget. Kiani, "Prankster Parrot" (Lilani's sister) She has brown hair and blue eyes. Wikipedia is funded through the Wikimedia Foundation . Diona, "Sparkley" (Ciara's twin) She has raven hair and a beauty spot. The ongoing status of Wikipedia's website is posted by users at a status page on OpenFacts. Ciara, "Spunky" (Diona's twin) She has raven hair and a beauty spot. In spite of all this, Wikipedia page load times remain quite variable.

Lela, "Vogue" (Krysta's twin) She has light blonde hair and brown eyes. A new Dutch cluster is also online now. Krysta, "Shine" (Lela's twin) She has light blonde hair and brown eyes. Wikimedia has begun building a global network of caching servers with the addition of three such servers in France. Lilee, (?) She has blonde hair and gray eyes. To increase speed further, rendered pages for anonymous users are cached in a filesystem until invalidated, allowing page rendering to be skipped entirely for most common page accesses. Leah, (?) She has brown hair with green eyes. The web servers serve pages as requested, performing page rendering for all the Wikipedias.

Kiana, (?) She has black hair and dark skin. Requests that cannot be served from the Squid cache are sent to two load-balancing servers running the Perlbal software, which then pass the request to one of the Apache web servers for page-rendering from the database. Katia, (?) She has raven hair and brown eyes. Page requests are processed by first passing to a front-end layer of Squid caching servers. Siernna, "Kickin' Kool-ala" (Oriana and Valentina's triplet) She has Light Brown Hair, with Blonde Highlights. By September 2005, its server cluster had grown to around 100 servers in four locations around the world. Valentina, "Pretty Pup" (Siernna and Oriana's triplet) She has Light Brown Hair, with Blonde Highlights. This configuration included a single master database server running MySQL, multiple slave database servers, 21 web servers running the Apache software, and seven Squid cache servers.

Oriana, "Punk Skunk" (Valentina and Siernna's triplet) She has Light Brown Hair, with Blonde Highlights. In January 2005, the project ran on 39 dedicated servers located in Florida. Felicia, (?) She has brown hair with dark skin. Wikipedia was served from a single server until 2003, when the server setup was expanded into an n-tier distributed architecture. Nona, "Star" (Tess' twin) She has brown hair and brown eyes. It was licensed under the GNU General Public License and used by all Wikimedia projects. Tess, "Solo" (Nona's twin) She has brown hair and brown eyes. Instituted in July 2002, this Phase III software was called MediaWiki.

May Lin, (?) She has black hair. Ultimately, the software was rewritten again, this time by Lee Daniel Crocker. Kumi, "Lucky Bug" She is Japanese with black hair. Several rounds of modifications were made to improve performance in response to increased demand. Tiana, (?) She has black hair. This software, Phase II, was written specifically for the Wikipedia project by Magnus Manske. Roxxi, "Spice" (Phoebe's twin) She has dark red hair. Wikipedia began running on a PHP wiki engine with a MySQL database in January 2002.

Phoebe, "Sugar" (Roxxi's twin) She has dark red hair. At first it required CamelCase for links; later it was also possible to use double brackets. Nevra, "Queen B" She has brown hair and coffe colored skin. Originally, Wikipedia ran on UseModWiki by Clifford Adams (Phase I). Fianna, "Fragrance" She has golden brown hair and tan skin. MediaWiki is Phase III of the program's software. Dana, "Sugar Shoes" She has dark brown hair and blue eyes. Wikipedia is run by MediaWiki free software on a cluster of dedicated servers located in Florida and three other locations around the world.

Meygan, "Funky Fashion Monkey" She has red hairand green eyes. Publication will begin in October 2006, and finish in 2010. Yasmin, "Pretty Princess" She has brown hair and a beauty spot. There are currently plans to license the usage of the Wikipedia trademark for some products like books or DVDs.^[25] The German Wikipedia will be printed in its entirety by Directmedia, in 100 volumes of 800 pages each. Sasha, "Bunny Boo" She has brown hair and dark skin. Technically a servicemark, the scope of the mark is for: "Provision of information in the field of general encyclopedic knowledge via the Internet". Jade, "Kool Kat" She has jet black hair and brown eyes. Trademark protection was accorded by Japan on December 16, 2004 and in the European Union on January 20, 2005.

Cloe, "Angel" She has light blonde hair and blue eyes. The mark was granted registration status on January 10, 2006. The Wikimedia Foundation applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Wikipedia® on September 17, 2004. Wikipedia reached its one millionth article among 105 language editions on September 20, 2004,^[23] while the English edition alone reached its 500,000th on March 18, 2005^[24]. The English Wikipedia reached a 100,000 article milestone on January 22, 2003^[22].

In its first two years, it grew at a few hundred or fewer new articles per day; by 2004, this had accelerated to 1,000 to 3,000 per day across all editions. Wikipedia has traditionally measured its status by article count. Wikimedia has since started a number of other projects, detailed below. Wikipedia's first sister project, "In Memoriam: September 11 Wiki" had been created in October 2002 to detail the September 11, 2001 attacks; Wiktionary, a dictionary project, was launched in December 2002; Wikiquote, a collection of quotes, a week after Wikimedia launched; and Wikibooks, a collection of collaboratively-written free books, the next month.

From Wikipedia and Nupedia, the Wikimedia Foundation was created on June 20, 2003.^[21] Wikipedia and its sister projects thereafter operated under this non-profit organization. Projects have since forked from Wikipedia's content for editorial reasons, such as Wikinfo, which abandoned "neutral point-of-view" in favor of multiple complementary articles written from a "sympathetic point-of-view.". Later that year, Wales announced that Wikipedia would not display advertisements, and moved its website to wikipedia.org. Citing fear of commercial advertising and lack of control in a perceived English-centric Wikipedia, users of the Spanish Wikipedia forked from Wikipedia to create the Enciclopedia Libre in February 2002.

It subsequently became inactive and its creator, free-software figure Richard Stallman, lent his support to Wikipedia.^[20]. Under a similar concept of free content, though not wiki production, the GNUPedia project existed alongside Nupedia early in its history. Wales mentioned that he heard the concept first from Jeremy Rosenfeld, an employee of Bomis who showed him the same wiki, in December 2000,^[19] but it was after Sanger heard of its existence from Ben Kovitz, a regular at this wiki, in January 2001,^[17] and proposed a creation of a wiki for Nupedia to Wales that Wikipedia's history started. Wales and Sanger attribute the concept of using a wiki to Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb or Portland Pattern Repository.

It had 26 language editions by the end of 2002, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the end of 2004.^[18] Nupedia and Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers went down, permanently, in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. It grew to approximately 20,000 articles among 18 language editions by the end of its first year. Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and search engine indexing. There were otherwise few rules initially.

Its policy of "neutral point-of-view" was codified in its initial months, though it is similar to Nupedia's earlier "nonbias" policy. It was relaunched off-site after Nupedia's Advisory Board of subject experts disapproved of its production model.^[17] Wikipedia thereafter operated as a standalone project without control from Nupedia. Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001, as a single English-language edition at wikipedia.com, and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.^[16] It had been, from 10 January, a feature of Nupedia.com in which the public could write articles that could be incorporated into Nupedia after review. So there's little downside, as far as I can see."^[15].

They're also a potentially great source for content. It seems to me wikis can be implemented practically instantly, need very little maintenance, and in general are very low-risk. We have occasionally bandied about ideas for simpler, more open projects to either replace or supplement Nupedia. (...) As to Nupedia's use of a wiki, this is the ULTIMATE "open" and simple format for developing content.

Jimmy Wales thinks that many people might find the idea objectionable, but I think not. It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. "No, this is not an indecent proposal. Under the subject "Let's make a wiki", he wrote:.