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Did you know you can have Wikipedia – the all inclusive, all knowing, unofficial central source of all information on the internet \u00a0– on your own pc? *<\/p>\nDid you know you can have Wikipedia – the all inclusive, all knowing, unofficial central source of all information on the internet \u00a0– on your own pc? *<\/p>\n
Neither did we. Just imagine how handy this could be next time your internet connection drops for the umpteenth time and you’ll still have your own local version of Wikipedia available.<\/p>\n
Hadlee Simons from\u00a0iafrica’s<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>cooltech<\/em>\u00a0has all the information you need.<\/p>\n * Never heard of Wikipedia?<\/p>\n Wikipedia<\/strong>\u00a0( Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by\u00a0Jimmy Wales\u00a0and\u00a0Larry Sanger.Sanger coined the name\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>which is a\u00a0portmanteau<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0wiki<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(a type of collaborative website, from the\u00a0Hawaiian\u00a0word\u00a0wiki<\/em>, meaning “quick”)\u00a0and\u00a0encyclopedia.<\/em><\/p>\n (SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA of course!)<\/p>\n Ons ook nie! Dink net hoe handig kan dit wees as jou internet weer nukkerig is en jy jou eie weergawe van Wikipedia binne bereik het.<\/p>\n Hadlee Simons van cooltech<\/em> by iafrica <\/strong><\/a>het al die inligting wat jy nodig het.<\/p>\n *Nog nooit van Wikipedia gehoor nie?<\/p>\n Wikipedia<\/strong>\u00a0( Wikipedia is in Januarie \u00a02001 bekendgestel deur Jimmy Wales\u00a0en\u00a0Larry Sanger. Sanger het die naam Wikipedia<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0wat `n samevoeging is van wiki<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(a type of collaborative website, from the\u00a0Hawaiian<\/a>\u00a0word\u00a0wiki<\/a><\/em>, meaning “quick”) en ensiklopedie, <\/em>uitgedink.<\/p>\n (BRON: WIKIPEDIA natuurlik!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you know you can have Wikipedia – the all inclusive, all knowing, unofficial central source of all information on the internet \u00a0– on your own pc? * Neither did we. Just imagine how handy this could be next time your internet connection drops for the umpteenth time and you’ll still have your own local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-26 12:56:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>i<\/a><\/sup>\/<\/a>\u02cc<\/a>w<\/a>\u026a<\/a>k<\/a>\u0268<\/a>\u02c8<\/a>p<\/a>i\u02d0<\/a>d<\/a>i<\/a>\u0259<\/a>\/<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/a>i<\/a><\/sup>\/<\/a>\u02cc<\/a>w<\/a>\u026a<\/a>k<\/a>i<\/a>\u02c8<\/a>p<\/a>i\u02d0<\/a>d<\/a>i<\/a>\u0259<\/a>\/<\/a>\u00a0wik<\/strong>-i-pee<\/strong>-dee-\u0259<\/em><\/a>) is a\u00a0free,\u00a0collaboratively edited, and\u00a0multilingual\u00a0Internet encyclopedia\u00a0supported by the non-profit\u00a0Wikimedia Foundation<\/a>. Its 22 million articles (over 4 million\u00a0in\u00a0English\u00a0alone) have been written collaboratively by\u00a0volunteers\u00a0around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,\u00a0and it has about 100,000 regularly active contributors.\u00a0As of August 2012, there are\u00a0editions of Wikipedia\u00a0in 285 languages. It has become the largest and most popular general\u00a0reference work\u00a0on the Internet,\u00a0<\/span>ranking sixth globally among all websites on\u00a0Alexa\u00a0and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide.<\/p>\nHet jy geweet jy kan Wikipedia – die allesomvattende, alwetende bron van alle nie-amptelike inligting op die internet – aflaai op jou rekenaar? *<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>i<\/a><\/sup>\/<\/a>\u02cc<\/a>w<\/a>\u026a<\/a>k<\/a>\u0268<\/a>\u02c8<\/a>p<\/a>i\u02d0<\/a>d<\/a>i<\/a>\u0259<\/a>\/<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/a>i<\/a><\/sup>\/<\/a>\u02cc<\/a>w<\/a>\u026a<\/a>k<\/a>i<\/a>\u02c8<\/a>p<\/a>i\u02d0<\/a>d<\/a>i<\/a>\u0259<\/a>\/<\/a>\u00a0wik<\/strong>-i-pee<\/strong>-dee-\u0259<\/em><\/a>) is ‘n gratis,\u00a0gesamentlik geredigeerde, en veeltalige\u00a0internet-ensiklopedie, ondersteun deur die nie-winsgewende\u00a0\u00a0Wikimedia Foundation<\/a>. Die meer as 22 miljoen artikels (meer as 4 miljoen in Engels) is saam geskryf deur vrywilligers van regoor die w\u00eareld. Feitlik al Wikipedia se artikels kan geredigeer word deur enigiemand wat toegang tot die webwerf het en dit het ongeveer 100,000 aktiewe, gereelde bydraers. Vanaf Augustus 2012 is daar weergawes van Wikiepedia in 285 tale. Dit het die grootste en mees popul\u00eare verwysingswerk op die internet geword, word globaal as nommer 6 gelys van alle webwerwe op Alexa<\/a>\u00a0en het `n beraamde \u00a0365 miljoen lesers w\u00eareldwyd.<\/p>\n