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CONTENTS

  1. Answers.com
  2. Bliki
  3. Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China
  4. Blog
  5. Bomis
  6. Citizendium
  7. Collaborative editing
  8. Collaborative real-time editor
  9. Collaborative software
  10. Collaborative writing
  11. Comparison of wiki software
  12. Corporate wiki
  13. Creative Commons
  14. Enciclopedia Libre
  15. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  16. Ensemble collaboration
  17. FileReplacement
  18. Free content
  19. GNU Free Documentation License
  20. GNUpedia
  21. History of Wikipedia
  22. International Music Score Library Project
  23. InterWiki
  24. IP address
  25. Italian Wikipedia
  26. Jimmy Wales
  27. John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy
  28. Larry Sanger
  29. Lexipedia
  30. List of wikis
  31. List of wiki software
  32. Living Platform
  33. LyricWiki
  34. Nupedia
  35. Open Site
  36. Peer review
  37. Peer-to-peer wiki
  38. Personal wiki
  39. Placeopedia
  40. Reliability of Wikipedia
  41. Semapedia
  42. SourceWatch
  43. Structured wiki
  44. TWiki
  45. Uncyclopedia
  46. Unilang
  47. Wapedia
  48. Wiki
  49. Wikia
  50. Wikibooks
  51. Wikifonia
  52. Wikijunior
  53. Wikileaks
  54. Wikimapia
  55. Wikimedia Commons
  56. Wikimedia Foundation
  57. Wikinews
  58. Wikinfo
  59. Wikipedia
  60. 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection
  61. Wikipedia in popular culture
  62. Wikiquote
  63. Wiki software
  64. Wikisource
  65. Wikispecies
  66. Wikitext
  67. Wikitravel
  68. Wikiversity
  69. WikiWax
  70. Wikiweise
  71. WikiZnanie
  72. Wikocracy
  73. Wiktionary

 

 



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Bomis

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Bomis, inc.
Image:Bomis.com logo.png
Type private
Founded 1996
Headquarters St. Petersburg, Florida, United States[citation needed]
Key people Jimmy Wales
Tim Shell
Michael Davis
Industry Internet
Products Internet portal
Advertising space
Revenue N/A
Employees 10
Slogan No slogan
Website www.bomis.com

Bomis (IPA: [/ˈbɑməs/]) [1] is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell[citation needed], and provided support for the free encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. As of 2006, Tim Shell is the CEO of Bomis.

On the Bomis.com site, Bomis creates and hosts web rings around popular search terms. The rings are currently categorized broadly as "Babes", "Entertainment", "Sports", "Adult", "Other" and "Science fiction".[2] The "Adult", "Babes" and "Entertainment" categories are the most frequently updated and the most popular. In addition, Bomis hosts a copy of the Open Directory Project search directory. Revenue from search-related pages is generated from advertising and affiliate marketing.

Silvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt
Silvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt

Bomis ran a website called Bomis Premium at premium.bomis.com until 2005, offering customers access to erotic photographs featuring 403 different models (a total of 54658 pictures), and videos of models in all states of undressing and suggestive poses.[3] Until mid-2005, Bomis also featured the Bomis Babe Report, a free blog, publishing news and reviews about celebrities, models, and the adult entertainment industry. The Babe Report prominently linked to Bomis Premium, and frequently posted updates about new models joining Bomis. Bomis has also operated nekkid.info, a free repository of selected erotic photographs,[4] and continues to host The Babe Engine, "a precision babe search engine", which indexes photos ranging from glamour photography to pornography.[5]

In addition to its erotica and search properties, Bomis has provided hosting to websites supporting objectivist or libertarian political views, including the "Freedom's Nest",[6] a database of books and quotes, and "We the Living", a large objectivist community website which is now defunct.

Role in the creation of Nupedia and Wikipedia

As of 2005, Bomis is best known for having supported the creation of the free-content online encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. Wales started Nupedia in 2000, and Larry Sanger was hired to manage and edit that project. A year into the development of Nupedia, a wiki was set up as a way to solicit new drafts for Nupedia; named Wikipedia. While originally intended as a 'feeder' project for Nupedia, Wikipedia — with its much lower barriers to contribution — rapidly outgrew its parent in size and attention.

For a while, Bomis provided web servers and bandwidth for these projects, paid Sanger in his role as project editor-in-chief (until he left the projects in 2002), and owned key items such as the associated domain names. However, as the costs and popularity of Wikipedia rose, a general reluctance to display advertising on the site — together with a desire to reflect the spirit of openness and neutrality central to Wikipedia — suggested an alternative ownership model. See full article: History of Wikipedia

The Wikimedia Foundation was formally announced on June 20, 2003, and all related assets (both in terms of intellectual property and computer hardware) were transferred or donated to this non-profit organization. (See: bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation (PDF file)). Larry Sanger had left the project by this time, but Jimmy Wales retains a key role on the board of the Foundation, along with users elected from the Wikipedia community. The Foundation now funds the operation of Wikipedia (and its sister projects) primarily through donations from readers. Bomis CEO Tim Shell was the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation until December 2006, when he was replaced by Jan-Bart de Vreede.

References

  1. ^ Bomis FAQ
  2. ^ Bomis What's New. Retrieved on December 24, 2005.
  3. ^ Bomis Premium Site. Retrieved on December 24, 2005.
  4. ^ See domain name registration information and archived copies
  5. ^ The site is advertised on Bomis.com; as of March 2006, it resolved to the same IP address as premium.bomis.com, and it uses bomis.com as its nameservers.
  6. ^ Freedom's Nest website. Retrieved on March 16, 2006.

External links and sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Bomis
  • Official Bomis website
  • List of Bomis slogans – a random slogan from the list is displayed on each www.bomis.com page
  • Jimmy Wales on the Wikipedia-L mailing list about Bomis


 

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Categories: Articles with unsourced statements since February 2007 | All articles with unsourced statements | Dot-com | Internet companies of the United States | Wikipedia | Companies established in 1996

 

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