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  2. Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Wales-founded Nupedia, an earlier project to produce a free online encyclopedia, volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis.

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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.

  4. Apr 18, 2005 · By the end of January we reportedly and approximately had 600 articles; there were 1300 in March, 2300 in April, and 3900 in May. Not only was the project growing steadily, the rate of growth was increasing. Wikipedia started with a handful of people, many from Nupedia.

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    On January 10, 2001, Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia. Launch and growth. The domains wikipedia.org and wikipedia.com (later redirecting to wikipedia.org) were registered on January 13, 2001, and January 12, 2001, respectively.

  6. Jan 15, 2021 · It all started in January 2001, when internet entrepreneurs Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger registered Wikipedia's domain as an offshoot of an earlier web-based encyclopedia project, Nupedia. As the site became established, it soon grew beyond the scope of the earlier project.

  7. Aug 26, 2020 · The first Wiki was created by Ward Cunningham in 1995. Basing it on his previous experience developing information stacks on Apple Computers HyperCard, Cunningham developed a website which enabled visitors to edit the material they found there in a comparatively straightforward way.

  8. History. In late 1999, Jimmy Wales began thinking about an online encyclopedia built by volunteers. In January 2000, he hired Larry Sanger to manage it. [1] . The project went online on March 9, 2000. [4] . By November 2000, only two full articles had been published. [5] From when it started, Nupedia was a free content encyclopedia. [4] .

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