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Due to its use of free content licenses, and a culture which includes a "right to fork", a number of content forks of the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia have been created. [1] [2] Citizendium, a 2006 fork of English Wikipedia, founded by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, which was unforked in 2007. [3] [4]
The Enciclopedia Libre was founded by contributors to the Spanish Wikipedia who decided to start an independent project. Led by Edgar Enyedy, they left Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia.
Enyedy persuaded most of the Spanish Wikipedians into going to the fork. By the end of 2002, over 10,000 articles were posted on the new site, and the Spanish Wikipedia was inactive for the rest of the year. Andrew Lih wrote that "for a long time it seemed that Spanish Wikipeda would be the unfortunate runt left from the Spanish fork."
Such pages are listed in subpages grouped alphabetically – see section § How to list new mirrors below. If you find such links, please add them here. If you find such links, please add them here. In August 2024, [update] the subpages listed a total of 730 mirrors and forks of Wikipedia.
A mirror is an exact copy. A fork is a copy that has been changed, diverging from the original path of development, like a fork in the road. Mirrors provide alternative access to Wikipedia (when access is needed offline, or when the Wikipedia site is down). Forks allow you to start with Wikipedia content, and transform it into something else.
In 2022, Spain passed a law stipulating that menstrual products should be distributed for free at schools, prisons, women's health-care facilities and other public institutions. ($1 = 0.9216 euros)
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ELinks, began as an experimental fork of Links. Fluxbox, from Blackbox. GNU Radio, from pSpectra. Xvid, was a fork of OpenDivX. WebKit, project was started within Apple by Lisa Melton on 25 June 2001 as a fork of KHTML.