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Type of site | Wiki, online encyclopedia |
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Available in | Spanish |
Owner | University of Seville |
Created by | Edgar Enyedy |
URL |
enciclopedia |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Not required (although in some events unregistered users have to register to view and edit) |
Users | 3,921 registered users, 1 active (September 2023) [1] [2] |
Launched | 26 February 2002 |
Current status | Inactive |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike 3.0 |
Written in | MediaWiki, made in PHP |
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia.
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. [3]
The reasons for the split are explained on Enciclopedia Libre. [4] Key issues included concerns about censorship and the possibility of advertising on Wikipedia. [5] Edgar Enyedy stated the main reasons for splitting at that time as: [3]
In 2011, Enyedy said that the sole reason for the failure of Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español as a long-term project was that 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." He further said "Nowadays, the romantic point of view is that EL survived and is still going strong." He argued that while the viewpoint is positive, it is not factual. [3]