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13-587: In 2008, the French encyclopaedia Quid cancelled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the French edition of Misplaced Pages. As of November 2024, there are 5,059,000 users, 146 admins and 72,592 files on the French Misplaced Pages. On 2 December 2014, the French-language Misplaced Pages encyclopedia became the 3rd linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for

26-436: A woman spends an average of 100 days of her life in ironing. The first edition was published by Plon in the first quarter of 1963 was sold in 20,000 copies. It was a 632-page illustrations-free paperback. In addition to a brief table of contents, the book included a 10-page index. The author introduced it as a “complete, up-to-date, handy and easy-to-read” book. He announced the book would be published yearly. The next edition

39-561: Is that while Misplaced Pages administrators are elected for an indefinite period, anybody can start a formal " motion of no confidence " contesting their status, with the community thereby invited to vote for or against removing their privileges. This also exists on the Spanish and Portuguese Misplaced Pages, but not on the English Misplaced Pages . Quid (encyclopedia) Quid is a French encyclopedia , established in 1963 by Dominique Frémy . It

52-614: The Cours Hattemer , a private school. He was a diplomaed student of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (English: Paris Institute of Political Studies ) and of the Faculté des lettres de Paris. He was employed by Shell in London , but quit his job to produce a new encyclopedia with his wife, Dominique. It began in 1963, named Quid . This article about a French writer of non-fiction

65-514: The 1990s. In February 2008, the 2008 edition was canceled by the publisher, Robert Laffont , which said that print encyclopedias can no longer compete with the free information available on the internet. Frémy, the founder of Quid , said that he would find another publisher and intended to publish a 2009 edition for Christmas 2009. For some time, Quid was available on the Internet. The original site www.quid.fr disappeared around 2010. In addition to

78-483: The complete current issue, it offered a daily news website, a world atlas with maps and 6,000 lexical entries on the 36,380 French communes with details about their history, geography, tourist attractions and economic life. Dominique Fr%C3%A9my Dominique Frémy (5 May 1931 – 2 October 2008) was the creator of the Quid encyclopedia. His spouse Michèle and son Fabrice participated in writing it as well. Frémy attended

91-601: The first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users, behind the English (23,300,456) and Spanish (3,401,493) language editions. The audience measurement company Médiamétrie questioned a sample of 8,500 users residing in France with access to Internet at home or at their place of work. Médiamétrie found that in June 2007, French Misplaced Pages had: 7,910,000 unique visitors that visited

104-538: The most controversial articles on the French Misplaced Pages. An important difference with the English Misplaced Pages is that like the Spanish Misplaced Pages , or the Portuguese Misplaced Pages in the past, following a community vote in 2006 the French Misplaced Pages does not accept any images posted under fair use , with the only exception being logos . As of 2023, this exact ban is still in effect. Another important difference

117-599: The site at least once during the month of June 2007 (compared to 4,355,000 unique visitors in June 2006); 2.7 visits per visitor during the period (2.0 visits in June 2006); had held the 12th position (21st in 2006) in "the Top 30 most visited sites in France, excluding Internet applications", according to the criterion of the number of unique visitors and 12th position in "the Top 30 most visited sites in France, including Internet applications", like eMule or Real Networks (22nd position in June 2006). By August 2011, French Misplaced Pages

130-550: The size of a large dictionary. The motto of the encyclopedia is "Tout sur tout... tout de suite" (translated as: "Everything on everything... right now"). Examples of the precise information included in Quid are: a) the use of moustaches among Austrian mailmen is forbidden to avoid them being confused with military officers; b) in 1850 there were 1,400,000 inhabitants in Finland , and c) in the West,

143-456: Was published annually between 1963 and 2007, first by Plon (1963-1974) and later by Éditions Robert Laffont (1975-2007), and was the most popular encyclopedic reference work in France . The presentation is very compressed, and abbreviations are used extensively in telegraph style . It uses very thin paper to get all the information into one volume. It is published each year in one volume about

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156-529: Was published in the third quarter of 1964: the book was made of a cardboard binding and was a little bit larger (824 pages). The first editions were cosigned by Michèle Frémy , Dominique Frémy ’s wife. The encyclopedia became larger over the years, reaching the size of a large dictionary. Each edition now needs the contribution of around 12,000 specialists. The 2007 edition of Quid cost €32; its 2,176 pages contained 2,500,000 items about 650 topics. It sold only about 100,000 copies, compared to more than 400,000 in

169-413: Was the 7th most visited site in France, with nearly 16 million unique visitors a month (according to Médiamétrie). In April 2012, it had 20 million unique visitors per month, or 2.4 million per day with over 700 million page views. According to a 2013 study by Taha Yasseri et al., from Oxford Internet Institute , Ségolène Royal ( FR ) and unidentified flying object ( objet volant non identifié ) were

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