ollaborative website

Deriving from the Hawaiian term "wiki" (meaning: fast), a wiki is a
website allowing multiple users to collaborate online on the same
project. The wiki concept became quite popular in 2000. At any time,
users can contribute to drafting content, edit it, improving it and
updating it. The wiki has been used for example to create and manage
dictionaries, encyclopedias or reference tools. The software can be
simple or more elaborate. A simple program handles text and hyperlinks.
With a more elaborate program, you can embed images, charts, tables,
etc.. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia. On this photo from Wikipedia,
the Wiki Wiki shuttle from the Honolulu International Airport.

January 2001 > Wikipedia, a global free online encyclopedia

Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
(Larry resigned later on). It has quickly grown into the largest
reference website on the internet, financed by donations, with no
advertising. Its multilingual content is free and written
collaboratively by people worldwide, who contribute under a pseudonym.
Its website is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit, correct and
improve information throughout the encyclopedia. The articles stay the
property of their authors, and can be freely used according to the GFDL
(GNU Free Documentation License). In December 2004, Wikipedia had 1.3
million articles (by 13,000 contributors) in 100 languages. In December
2006, it had 6 million articles in 250 languages. In May 2007, it had 7
million articles in 192 languages, including 1.8 million articles in
English, 589,000 articles in German, 500,000 articles in French,
260,000 articles in Portuguese, and 236,000 articles in Spanish.

January 2001 > The UNDL Foundation, for a "universal" metalanguage

The UNL (Universal Networking Language) project was launched in
mid-1990s the as a main digital metalanguage project by the Institute
of Advanced Studies (IAS) of the United Nations University (UNU) in
Tokyo, Japan. As explained on the bilingual (English, Japanese) website
in 1998: "UNL is a language that--with its companion 'enconverter'
and 'deconverter' software--enables communication among peoples of
differing native languages. It will reside, as a plug-in for popular
web browsers, on the internet, and will be compatible with standard
network servers." In 2000, 120 researchers worldwide were working on a
multilingual project in 16 languages (Arabic, Braz