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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.
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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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.
Nupedia was encumbered by its peer-review system, a seven-step process of review and copyediting, and Wikipedia grew at a faster rate. In November 2000, Nupedia had 115 potential articles awaiting its peer-review process.
Today, read the continuation of Larry Sanger's account of the early history of Nupedia and Wikipedia (below), in which Sanger talks about the difficulties of governance in a large, free-wheeling project, some final attempts to save Nupedia, and how he came to resign from the organization.
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Nov 9, 2015 · Obviously, Wikipedia quickly overshadowed its ancestor; Nupedia was effectively shut down by 2003, Larry had been laid off by Jimmy’s company the year before, though Larry’s personal vision of a reliable, contributory online encyclopedia persisted, launching the infelicitously-named Citizendium project in 2007, which met a similar fate.
Jan 9, 2024 · Less than a year after the unsuccessful launch of Nupedia—an online free encyclopedia—its successor, Wikipedia, goes live on January 15, 2001. As of January 2024, Wikipedia has more some 6.8...
