Q 01/05
A) 2003
B) 2005
C) 2007
D) 2001
Answer · why
The first edit came two days after the domain was registered, and 15 January is now celebrated by editors as Wikipedia Day.
Q 02/05
A) Donations from readers
B) Government grants
C) Licensing fees from Google
D) Premium subscriptions
Answer · why
The annual fundraising banners raise millions of small gifts, and the foundation's endowment passed $100 million in the 2020s.
Q 03/05
A) Sergey Brin and Larry Page
B) Ward Cunningham and Tim Shell
C) Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
D) Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
Answer · why
One defined the goal of a publicly editable encyclopedia; the other suggested using a wiki to get there, and coined the name.
Q 04/05
A) Postage stamps
B) Origami folds
C) Jigsaw pieces
D) Circuit boards
Answer · why
Each piece carries a glyph from a different writing system, and the missing pieces symbolise a project that is never finished.
Q 05/05
A) Wikinauts
B) Wikimasters
C) Wikipedians
D) Wikigraphers
Answer · why
They edit through the open-source MediaWiki software, and the whole encyclopedia sees around five edits per second on average.
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