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| Available in | German |
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| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | March 16, 2001 |
The (German: ) is the German-language edition of , a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
For the March 2006 writing contest, the 150 nominated articles were split into three sections: history and society (56 nominations), arts and humanities (36), and science (46). The article on the (German: Braunbär) won, and of the nominated 27 articles reached featured status a few weeks after the contest. In March 2007, the sixth contest was held, with the winner being the article on the (German: Haager Konvention zum Schutz von Kulturgut bei bewaffneten Konflikten).
The production of the DVD motivated the Personendaten project (see above).
Directmedia sold 30,000 DVDs, at €9.90 each. This price included 16% taxes and a one-euro donation to ; production costs were about €2. The DVD image can also be downloaded for free.
Following the successful launch of the DVD, Directmedia donated high-resolution pictures of 10,000 public domain paintings to (see related Signpost story).
In mid-November 2005, it was discovered that an anonymous user had entered hundreds of articles from older encyclopedias that had been published in the 1970s and 1980s in East Germany. The articles were mainly on topics in philosophy and related areas. The user had started in December 2003.
A press release was issued and numerous editors started to remove the copyright protected materials. This was made difficult by the fact that the old encyclopedias were not online and not easily available from many West German libraries, and that the user had used numerous different IP addresses. The Directmedia DVD had to be updated.
In 2015 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum sued the WMF and its German chapter for alleged copyright violations of 17 public domain pictures.
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