Spanish Fork

The Spanish Fork was an event in 2002 when members of the Spanish Wikipedia community broke away from the broad Wikimedia/Wikipedia community to create the Enciclopedia Libre Universal, a fork of Wikipedia. The split was made in protest of evolving practices and policies in the Wikimedia world. Ultimately, many users returned to Spanish Wikipedia, and the fork later died in late 2024.

• Wikimania talk (2005): Ascander Suarez & Juan David Ruiz: The Spanish Fork of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales: Raising political dialogue to a higher level Wikimania05/Paper-AS1#The Spanish Fork of Wikipedia
• At least one candidate for the WMF Board of Trustees (User:Zuirdj in 2006) referred to the Spanish Fork as a significant event in their candidate statement: Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2006/Candidates/en#Zuirdj

See also

• Complementary projects
• w:es:Wikipedia:Enciclopedia Libre
• w:en:Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español on English Wikipedia
• Open letter to the Enciclopedia Libre group
• Tkacz, Nathaniel (20 January 2011). "The Spanish Fork: Wikipedia's ad-fuelled mutiny". Wired UK.
• Covered in: Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. London: Aurum. p. 9. ISBN 9781845134730. OCLC 280430641.
• Covered in Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus (2010), as described in HaeB's Signpost review: w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-06/Book_review
• Interview with author of Wired story: w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-29/Interview
• Interview with Edgar Enyedy, 2011: http://networkcultures.org/cpov/2011/01/15/spanish_fork/
• Email transcripts at w:es:Usuario:Edgar~eswiki