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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.
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. 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.
I’m Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information School, and that’s “Nupedia” as in N-U-pedia; N-E-W-pedia is an obvious mishearing even though that’s not how it was named, we’ll get to that shortly. The “pedia” part is easier, it’s part of what lexicologists call a back-formation, from “encyclopedia”, which ...
Apr 18, 2005 · But by the summer of 2001, I was able to propose, get accepted (with very lukewarm support), and install something we called the Nupedia Chalkboard, a wiki which was to be closely managed by Nupedia's staff. It was to be both a simpler way to develop encyclopedia articles for Nupedia, and a way to import articles from Wikipedia.
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In Wikipedia: Origin and growth. In March 2000 Wales founded Nupedia, a free online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor in chief. Nupedia was organized like existing encyclopaedias, with an advisory board of experts and a lengthy review process. By January 2001 fewer than two dozen articles were finished, and Sanger advocated ...
Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations ...
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Aug 26, 2020 · The first free online encyclopaedia was launched in October 1999 by Encyclopedia Britannica, which could trace back its origins to Edinburgh in 1768 [3]. Jimmy Wales founded Nupedia in 2000 [4] and Larry Sanger was appointed editor in chief. Wikipedia was added in January 2001. However in July 2001, Encyclopedia Britannica decided to start ...
