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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. In February 2002, Larry Sanger wrote an e-mail to a mailing list stating that Bomis was considering selling advertisements on Wikipedia. Edgar Enyedy, a user on the Spanish Wikipedia, criticized the proposal. Lih stated in 2009 that the concepts of advertising and forking were still sensitive issues for the Wikipedia community because “It took more than a year for the Spanish Wikipedia to get back on its feet again” after the fork had been initiated. Both projects continue to co-exist, but the Spanish Wikipedia is by far the more active of the two. March 16, 2001: Jimmy Wales announced the internationalization of Wikipedia.

May 11, 2001: The Spanish Wikipedia is established along with eight other wikis. February 26, 2002: many contributors left to form the Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español, rejecting perceived censorship and the possibility of advertising on the Bomis-supported Wikipedia. October 23, 2002: the domain spanish. October 6, 2003: first bot created on this Wikipedia. July 18, 2004: the Spanish edition switches to UTF-8, allowing any character to be used directly in forms. December 9, 2004: it is decided that Wikipedia in Spanish will use free images only.

August 24, 2006: three checkusers are elected. June 11, 2007: last local image was erased, so all media are retrieved from Wikimedia Commons. December 13, 2008: it was decided to eliminate the stub template from Spanish Wikipedia. March 25, 2009: the first oversighters are elected. They can delete edits so they cannot be seen even by regular administrators. April 15, 2009: the Arbitration Committee is dissolved after a vote.