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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.
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 .
Apr 18, 2005 · Larry Sanger, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, recounts the origins and evolution of Nupedia and Wikipedia, two pioneering projects of free online encyclopedias. He shares his insights on project management, collaboration, quality control, and the future of open content.
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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.
6 days ago · 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.
Nov 9, 2015 · Nupedia was a web-based encyclopedia project co-created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2000, aiming to be a reliable and peer-reviewed resource. It failed to keep up with the pace and popularity of Wikipedia, its wiki-based spin-off, and was shut down in 2003.
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The intent behind Nupedia was to have expert-written entries on a variety of topics and to sell advertising alongside the entries to make a profit. The project was characterized by an extensive peer-review process designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias.
