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   When did Nupedia start?

   • In March 2000, the Nupedia project was started. Its intention was to publish articles written by experts which would be licensed as free content. Nupedia was founded by Wales, with Sanger as editor-in-chief, and funded by the web-advertising company Bomis.

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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.

   Nupedia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   How did wikipedia start?

   • Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.

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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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   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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   Apr 18, 2005 · An impassioned debate has been raging, particularly since about the summer of 2004, about the merits of Wikipedia and the future of free online encyclopedias. This discussion has not benefitted by much detailed, accurate consideration of the origins of Wikipedia and of its parent project, Nupedia.

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   Aug 26, 2020 · Wikipedia was added in January 2001. However in July 2001, Encyclopedia Britannica decided to start charging anyone who wanted to read more than a few lines. Faced with the current economic slow-down, their representative, Tom Panelas said “The economics of the all-free model has changed” [5].

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   Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20] . It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.

6. time.com › 4177280Wikipedia at 15: How Wiki Technology Was First Invented | TIME

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   Jan 15, 2016 · Early in 2001, a user named Ben Kovitz mentioned to Larry Sanger, who was working on the online encyclopedia then known as Nupedia, that a wiki would be a good way to expand the capabilities...

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   History. In late 1999, Jimmy Wales began thinking about an online encyclopedia built by volunteers. In January 2000, he hired Larry Sanger to manage it. [1] . The project went online on March 9, 2000. [4] . By November 2000, only two full articles had been published. [5] From when it started, Nupedia was a free content encyclopedia. [4] .