Today all over the world, Wikipedia celebrates its 10th anniversary since it was founded in 2001.This is an important day to our resourceful open online encyclopedia. It was founded by jimmy Wales based on the concept that anyone can post and edit information which gives the opportunity to millions of people a forum to share knowledge. The main idea behind Wikipedia is that nobody knows everything but everyone knows something worth sharing with another. Wikipedia is among the top four visited-websites receiving close to 400million hits a month.
Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary has been celebrated worldwide in most big cities.
In Nairobi it was hosted by Strathmore University . And graced by Ting Chen, Chairman of the board of trustees at Wikipedia and other wikimedians.
The Wikimedia Kenya launched its project Wikipedia for schools which is a project to install offline Wikipedia version to schools that have no access to expensive internet services in Kenya. It’s my hope that this project is successful thus the spread of knowledge and Wikipedia usage too in Africa.
I congratulate Wikipedia on this day on its 10th year. I’m positive that you will walk the long way ahead in getting more usage in Africa!
Kudos Wikimedia foundation too for the work
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