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   Is Nupedia a wiki?

   • It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia operated from October 1999 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.

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   When did the Nupedia wiki go live?

   • I wrote a general proposal for the Nupedia community, and the Nupedia wiki went live January 10. The first encyclopedia articles for what was to become Wikipedia were written then. It turned out, however, that a clear majority of the Nupedia Advisory Board wanted to have nothing to do with a wiki.

   The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir

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   Why did Nupedia start?

   • This was because Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation said they should. Also in January 2001, Nupedia started Wikipedia. At first, it was not meant to be an encyclopedia. Instead, it was meant as a side-project to allow people to work on articles for Nupedia before they were peer reviewed.

   Nupedia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   When did Wikipedia become a free encyclopedia?

   • In January 2001, it switched to the GNU Free Documentation License. This was because Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation said they should. Also in January 2001, Nupedia started Wikipedia. At first, it was not meant to be an encyclopedia.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_WikipediaHistory of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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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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3. features.slashdot.org › story › 05/04/18The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir

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   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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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WikipediaWikipedia - Wikipedia

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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.

5. www.thenationalnews.com › world › europeHow Wikipedia became the world's largest encyclopedia

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   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.

6. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › NupediaNupedia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   Launched. 9 March 2000; 24 years ago. ( 2000-03-09) Current status. Defunct since 26 September 2003; succeeded by Wikipedia. The first logo that Nupedia used. It was coded in HTML. Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia. Its articles were written by volunteers and checked by experts.

7. en.wikiversity.org › wiki › Wikipedia_and_NupediaWikipedia and Nupedia - Wikiversity

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   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.