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Nupedia operated from October 1999 [1] [2] until September 2003. It is best known today as the predecessor of Wikipedia. Nupedia had a seven-step approval process to control content of articles before being posted, rather than live wiki -based updating. Nupedia was designed by a committee of experts who predefined the rules.
- 9 March 2000; 23 years ago
- Online encyclopedia
- Bomis (formerly)
Kovitz suggested that adopting the wiki model would allow editors to contribute simultaneously and incrementally throughout the project, thus breaking Nupedia's bottleneck. Sanger was excited about the idea, and after he proposed it to Wales, they created the first Nupedia wiki on January 10, 2001.
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- Jimbo (screen name)
- Jimmy Donal Wales, August 7, 1966 (age 57), Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
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Larry Sanger. Lawrence Mark Sanger ( / ˈsæŋər /; [1] born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, an online encyclopedia, and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. He coined Wikipedia's name, and wrote many of its early guidelines, including the ...
- Lawrence Mark Sanger, July 16, 1968 (age 55), Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
- Internet project developer, philosopher
Apr 18, 2005 · Wikipedia's first few months. So we decided to relaunch the wiki under its own domain name. I came up with the name "Wikipedia," a silly name for what was at first a very silly project, and the newly independent project was launched at Wikipedia.com on January 15, 2001. It was a ".com" at first because, at the time, we were contemplating ...
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May 17, 2024 · Nupedia operated from October 1999 [1] [2] until September 2003. It is best known today as the predecessor of Wikipedia. Nupedia had a seven-step approval process to control content of articles before being posted, rather than live wiki -based updating. Nupedia was designed by a committee of experts who predefined the rules.
Nov 9, 2015 · Initial reaction was lukewarm, the Nupedia faithful felt it was a bit too informal and unstructured, but nonetheless Wikipedia.com (the .org came later) was launched on January 15; within a day the first article, on the letter U, was up; within 2 weeks there were 600 articles, then more than 1,000 by mid-February, and more than 20,000 within ...
Sep 1, 2006 · Wales and Sanger created the first Nupedia wiki on January 10, 2001. The initial purpose was to get the public to add entries that would then be “fed into the Nupedia process” of authorization.
