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  2. History of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.

  3. Wikipedia logo - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia's first true logo was an image originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad – under the username Bjornsm – for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. [5] It was used provisionally as Wikipedia's logo until the end of 2001. [6]

  4. Wikipedia:Hatnote - Wikipedia

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    e. Hatnotes are short notes placed at the very top of a page or a section, in the way that a hat is placed on top of one's head. For an example see the notes in italics immediately preceding the boxes above. The purpose of a hatnote is to help readers locate a different article if the one they are at is not the one they're looking for.

  5. Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia's first true logo was an image that was originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad [1] for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. [2] It continued to be used after this time on Special Pages, such as search results. The logo included a quote from the preface of the 1879 book Euclid and his Modern Rivals by Lewis Carroll; due ...

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  7. Talk:List of English words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    My concern is "how can nohat (or for that matter anyone) tell that the word Nal (or for that matter any word) has been lost from Tamil, where as it is been still used in day to day life. What right does he have to proclaim a word as "lost".

  8. Derangement - Wikipedia

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    In other words, a derangement is a permutation that has no fixed points . The number of derangements of a set of size n is known as the subfactorial of n or the n- th derangement number or n- th de Montmort number (after Pierre Remond de Montmort ). Notations for subfactorials in common use include ! n, Dn, dn, or n ¡.

  9. Talk:List of English words of Korean origin - Wikipedia

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    User:Nohat was extremely helpful, looking up the OED for us, when I did a major cleanup of the List of English words of Japanese origin. I'll ask him if he can help. Also, Nohat has devised a 3-part test, to determine if words should be included on the list. The test is as follows: Does the word occur in English texts with any regularity?

  10. Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive - Wikipedia

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    Administrators who have not edited in at least 3 months, sorted by length of inactivity: ProveIt ( talk · contribs · logs) - 7 May 2023. De728631 ( talk · contribs · logs) - 29 May 2023. Ian.thomson ( talk · contribs · logs) - 17 June 2023. Hyacinth ( talk · contribs · logs) - 29 June 2023.

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    Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, with around 10 million video clips and music tracks available for licensing.