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[[File:A handshake.png|thumb|A collaboration is formed.]]
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A little over fourteen years ago, on 16 March 2001, Wikipedia
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Jimmy Wales announced and launched the first Wikipedia projects to be [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000049.html written in languages other than English], the [[:de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite|German]] and [[:ca:Portada|Catalan]] Wikipedias. With these creations the future Wikimedia movement would be given an exciting and motivating direction to move in to: a truly global movement with truly global free educational content. The Wikimedia Foundation now hosts over 900 wikis in hundreds of languages, [[Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects#Core free knowledge projects|covering ten subject areas]] as well as Meta-Wiki, the global community site, and MediaWiki.org, the website for development and documentation of the software the runs the Wikimedia wikis.
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A little over fourteen years ago, on 16 March 2001, Wikipedia
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founder
Jimmy Wales announced and launched the first Wikipedia projects to be [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000049.html written in languages other than English], the [[:de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite|German]] and [[:ca:Portada|Catalan]] Wikipedias. With these creations the future Wikimedia movement would be given an exciting and motivating direction to move in to: a truly global movement with truly global free educational content. The Wikimedia Foundation now hosts over 900 wikis in hundreds of languages, [[Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects#Core free knowledge projects|covering ten subject areas]] as well as Meta-Wiki, the global community site, and MediaWiki.org, the website for development and documentation of the software the runs the Wikimedia wikis.
The rapid growth and expansion of the various projects presented a problem very early on, and one that is [[Single User Login finalisation announcement|finally being solved to completion]] this month: accounts created on one wiki stayed on one wiki. If you wanted to edit a different wiki, you had to register a new account. Sometimes, and with growing frequency over the years, your account name was already registered by someone else on that different wiki. Lack of single-user login required you to register a different account name, splitting your identity across the wikis. This has caused a great hinderance to the potential of software development, from being able to develop [[mw:Echo_(Notifications)|global notifications]] or [[phab:T5525|global watchlists]], as just two examples. The lack of assured persistent identity across the wikis also caused problems with users being mistaken for other users, users blocked on one wiki were sometimes assumed to be the same person on another, the list goes on. As of last month, out of 84 million accounts, there were 2.8 million with conflicting, identical usernames.
The rapid growth and expansion of the various projects presented a problem very early on, and one that is [[Single User Login finalisation announcement|finally being solved to completion]] this month: accounts created on one wiki stayed on one wiki. If you wanted to edit a different wiki, you had to register a new account. Sometimes, and with growing frequency over the years, your account name was already registered by someone else on that different wiki. Lack of single-user login required you to register a different account name, splitting your identity across the wikis. This has caused a great hinderance to the potential of software development, from being able to develop [[mw:Echo_(Notifications)|global notifications]] or [[phab:T5525|global watchlists]], as just two examples. The lack of assured persistent identity across the wikis also caused problems with users being mistaken for other users, users blocked on one wiki were sometimes assumed to be the same person on another, the list goes on. As of last month, out of 84 million accounts, there were 2.8 million with conflicting, identical usernames.