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Bomis ran a website called Bomis Premium at premium.bomis.com until 2005, offering customers access to premium, X-rated[5] pornographic content.
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,[6] and also hosted The Babe Engine, "a precision babe search engine", which indexes photos ranging from glamour photography to pornography.[7]
In addition, Bomis has provided hosting to websites supporting Objectivist and other libertarian political views, including the "Freedom's Nest",[8] a database of books and quotes, and "We the Living", a large objectivist community website which is now defunct.
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The Bomis staff, as of the summer of 2000.
Main article: History of Wikipedia
Bomis is best known for having supported the creation of the free-content online encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. Bomis hosted Nupedia in 2000, and Larry Sanger was hired to manage and edit that project. A year into the development of Nupedia, Bomis decided the project was too expensive,[citation needed] and a so called "wiki" was set up as a way to solicit free new drafts for Nupedia.
Wiki as a word, as a concept, and as a software technology for websites that allows multiple users to edit and update a text or program quickly and easily, was an invention of and created and developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994. The new online-encyclopedia on base of Ward's wiki-technology, was named Wikipedia and it looked exactly the same as Cunningham's websites. While originally intended as a "feeder" project for Nupedia, Wikipedia—with its much lower barriers to contribution, and its much lower costs for Bomis—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 of Wikipedia rose with its popularity, Bomis' revenues declined as result of the dot-com-crash, a general reluctance to display advertising on the site—together with a desire from the Wikipedia community to reflect the spirit of openness and neutrality central to Wikipedia—suggested an alternative ownership model.
The Wikimedia Foundation was formally announced on June 20, 2003. All intellectual property and domain name assets, including "Wikipedia", were transferred or donated over to the foundation, which was registered as a non-profit organization, but the server hardware was not transferred.[9] Bomis CEO Tim Shell became the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the foundation, with Jimmy Wales as another board member. In December 2006 Tim Shell was replaced by Jan-Bart de Vreede. Jimmy Wales continues to retain a role on the board of the Foundation, which now is entirely responsible for funding (almost entirely through donations) the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects.
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^ a b Stöcker, Christian (31 August 2010). "Eine Weltmacht im Netz" (in German). Der Spiegel. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegelwissen/0,1518,715592,00.html. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
^ "Bomis FAQ"
^ Bramhall, Stuart. "The Wikipedia Revolution – Part I (review)". http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/12/07/the-wikipedia-revolution-part-i/. Retrieved December 14, 2011.
^ "Bomis What's New". http://www.bomis.com/bomisreport/. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
^ Kuchinskas, Susan (March 26, 2009). "Jimmy Wales: Why the recession will not kill digital media". iMedia Connection. http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/22473.asp.
^ See domain name registration information and archived copies
^ 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.
^ "Freedom's Nest". Archived from the original on March 23, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060323230349/http://www.freedomsnest.com/. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
^ Wales, Jimmy (June 20, 2003). "[Wikipedia-l] Announcing Wikimedia Foundation". http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
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