The Slovak-language edition of Wikipedia opened in the autumn of 2003, a couple of years after the English edition had been founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001. Like other language editions, it is written and edited by volunteers and is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, which also runs the other Wikimedia projects. It serves readers in Slovakia and in Slovak-speaking communities abroad, and it has grown into a sizeable reference work over the following years. Its launch was part of the rapid spread of Wikipedia into dozens of languages in the early 2000s, which turned the project from an English experiment into a multilingual encyclopaedia.
Before and after
- from 22 September 2003 to 19 February 2015Premiere of Two and a Half Men
- 23 September 2003Premiere of NCIS
- 26 September 2003Construction of Auditorio de Tenerife
- 28 September 2003Founding of European Union Aviation Safety Agency
- October 2003Release of Slovak Wikipedia
- from 8 October 2003 to 20 November 2022Premiere of The Walking Dead
- 12 October 2003Release of Albanian Wikipedia
- 15 October 2003Launch of Shenzhou 5
- 19 October 2003Discovery of Atacama skeleton
More in Science & technology
- 1950Discovery of californium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.