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Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with relevant subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief.
Nupedia was online from March 2000 until September 2003. It is mostly known as the website which came before Wikipedia. Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki. It also had a long peer-review process for all of its articles. This was supposed to make its articles as good as professional encyclopedias. Nupedia wanted scholars to help
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Apr 18, 2005 · Sanger has prepared a lengthy, informative account of the early history of Nupedia and Wikipedia, including some cogent observations on project management, online legitimacy, dealing with trolls, and other hazards of running a large, collaborative project over the Internet.
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Jan 15, 2021 · Fri 15 Jan 2021 10.34 EST. T wenty years ago today, a tech startup called Nupedia launched a side project. The company had been hard at work producing a free online encyclopaedia, but it was slow...
Aug 26, 2020 · This case study looks at how the Wikimedia Movement, centred around Wikipedia, grew from being originally a side project of Nupedia, to holding its current position as the 6th most popular website in the world.
