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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.
It was coded in HTML. Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia. Its articles were written by volunteers and checked by experts. They were licensed as open content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Nupedia was online from March 2000 [1] until September 2003. It is mostly known as the website which came before Wikipedia .
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Apr 18, 2005 · On January 15, 2001, they launched a Wiki-fied version and within a month, they had 200 articles. In a year, they had 18,000. ... Sanger left the project in 2002. "In the Nupedia mode, there was room for an editor in chief," Wales says. "The Wiki model is too distributed for that."
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Jan 13, 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 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 ...
Nov 22, 2019 · Background In March 2001, the leadership of Nupedia began serious consideration of the idea of working more closely with Wikipedia, or else setting up a Nupedia wiki.Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief of Nupedia, seriously advanced for discussion the idea of switching Nupedia's editorial process to a less bottleneck-ridden, wiki type of process.
