Switzerland. It has included: (a) the WHO General Dictionary Index (in
English, with the French and Spanish equivalents); (b) three glossaries
in English: Health for All, Programme Development and Management, and
Health Promotion; (c) the WHO TermWatch, an awareness service from the
Technical Terminology, reflecting the current WHO usage, but not
necessarily terms officially approved by WHO, and links to health-
related terminology.
Eurodicautom, a multilingual terminological database maintained by the
Translation Service of the European Commission, was initially developed
to assist in-house translators. The free online version was used by
European Union officials and by language professionals throughout the
world. Its contents were available in the eleven official languages of
the European Union (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German,
Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish), plus Latin. Eurodicautom
covered "a broad spectrum of human knowledge", mainly relating to
economy, science, technology and legislation in the European Union. In
late 2003, the website announced the inclusion of the existing database
into a larger terminological database that would also include databases
from other official European institutions. The new terminological
database would be available in more than 20 languages, because a number
of Eastern European countries were expected to join the European Union
in the near future, thus the need for more languages than the eleven
original ones. The European Union went from 15 country members to 25
country members in May 2004, and 27 country members in January 2007.
The website of IATE (Inter-Active Terminology for Europe) was launched
in March 2007 as an eagerly awaited free service on the web, with 1.4
million entries in 24 languages.
= Wikipedia
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).
Wikipedia had 1.3 million articles (by 13,000 contributors) i
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