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     • Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people.
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   Who created Wikipedia?

   • 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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   How did Wikipedia become a free encyclopedia?

   • Within a couple of months, Wales had changed his email signature from the open source encyclopedia to the free encyclopedia; both Nupedia and Wikipedia had adopted the GFDL; and the merger of GNUpedia into Wikipedia was effectively accomplished.

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   Who created the Nupedia wiki?

   • "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Archived from the original on 23 December 2006. Retrieved 25 March 2007. Wales and Sanger created the first Nupedia wiki on 10 January 2001. The initial purpose was to get the public to add entries that would then be "fed into the Nupedia process" of authorization.

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   Who invented the Encyclopedia?

   • The idea of using automated machinery beyond the printing press to build a more useful encyclopedia can be traced to Paul Otlet 's 1934 book Traité de Documentation. Otlet also founded the Mundaneum, an institution dedicated to indexing the world's knowledge, in 1910.

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   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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     "Tellingly and laudably, Wikipedia's entries on its own...

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4. www.britannica.com › topic › WikipediaWikipedia | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

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   Apr 19, 2024 · Wikipedia, free Internet-based encyclopaedia, started in 2001, that operates under an open-source management style. It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia uses a collaborative software known as wiki that facilitates the creation and development of articles.

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5. sloanreview.mit.edu › article › the-unconventionalThe Unconventional Innovator Who Created Wikipedia

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   Jan 12, 2021 · With the benefit of hindsight, it may seem inevitable that someone, at some point, would have invented a platform like Wikipedia. But in truth, the creation of this online marvel was not predestined. Its creation required the determined efforts of an unconventional, original thinker: Jimmy Wales.

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7. time.com › 4177280Wikipedia at 15: How Wiki Technology Was First Invented | TIME

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   Jan 15, 2016 · Early in 2001, a user named Ben Kovitz mentioned to Larry Sanger, who was working on the online encyclopedia then known as Nupedia, that a wiki would be a good way to expand the...

8. onezero.medium.com › an-oral-history-of-wikipediaAn Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia

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   Jan 14, 2021 · In Sanger’s Wikipedia page, it is written, “Sanger proposed using a wiki to solicit and receive articles to put through Nupedia’s peer-review process.” Larry Sanger: I came up with the...