German Wikipedia

Facts

Started: March 2001

Areas of strength

General article quality
Several cooperations with third parties regarding e.g. Persondata (German national library) or CD-/DVD-production (Directmedia)
High grade of face-to-face contacts by means of regular meetings (so called “Stammtische”)
Creativity in inventing new ways of quality enhancement e.g. writing contests (“Schreibwettbewerb”), concepts as featured (“exzellente”) and good (“lesenswerte”) articles or events as “Wikipedia Academy” (involvement of experts)

Areas of weakness

Who is the competition (print, online)?

The general PR talking points are that we don't see them as competitors as they could take our content and sell it under the CC/GFDL terms. Competitors to those companies would be other companies that are using wikipedia content to build up products (like Directmedia publishing)
Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus (Brockhaus, Meyers) (online, physical electronic product, print)
Encarta (physical electronic product and online)
Bertelsmann (online, physical electronic product, print)

first meetup in Munich on 28th October 2003 in Munich
100.000 articles in June 2004 on the very same "Wikipedia day" when Jimmy Wales was in Berlin and the german association "Wikimedia Germany" was founded.
first Wikipedia CD October 2004 published by en:Directmedia_Publishing
first Wikipedia DVD April 2005 published by Directmedia_Publishing
first Wikimania conference in Frankfurt in August
500.000 articles in November 2006
1.000.000 articles in December 2009

What has its impact been?

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