Dhamma Wiki milestones
The Dhamma Encyclopedia is an effort to make Buddhist concepts and information available to anyone.
The official encyclopedia of The Dhamma website, a Buddhist encyclopedia. All traditions are welcome, but this encyclopedia primarily focuses on the foundation teachings of early Buddhism, i.e., Theravada.
Dhamma refers to the teachings of the Buddha and Wiki is the term for encyclopedia type websites that use a software that allows for numerous pages interlinked to each other. Wiki is a Hawaiian term for 'quick' and thus Dhamma Wiki is the perfect name for this website. Dhamma is specifically a Theravada Buddhist term whereas the Sanskrit 'Dharma' could refer to Mahayana Dharma, Jain Dharma, Sikh Dharma, etc. The combination of Dhamma and Wiki is also appropriate as it combines East and West terms and Buddhism has been flourishing throughout the world even more so since the arrival of Buddhism to the West in the last century.
Milestones
- October 1, 2008: Dr. David N. Snyder established The Dhamma Encyclopedia.
- November 2008: Over 1,000 articles
- December 2008: Over 2,000 articles
- December 2008: The Dhamma Encyclopedia becomes the largest and most visited Theravada Buddhist encyclopedia.
- January 2009: Over 3,000 articles
- January 2009: Dhamma Wheel is launched, a Theravada based online forum for discussing the Dhamma, including the discussion of The Dhamma Encyclopedia and acquires more than 100 members and 2,000 posts in the first two weeks.
- January 2009: Over 4,000 articles
- January 2009: The Dhamma Encyclopedia becomes the largest Buddhist encyclopedia from any tradition.
- January 2009: Over 5,000 articles
- February 2009: Over 100,000 page views (in the first 5 months of The Dhamma Encyclopedia).
- March 2009: Dhamma Wheel, the online Theravada Buddhist forum and discussion for The Dhamma Encyclopedia reaches over 10,000 posts.
- July 2009: Over 6,000 articles
- July 2009: Over 7,000 articles
- October 2009: First anniversary of The Dhamma Encyclopedia and over 400,000 page views in the first year (average of 1,100 page views per day).