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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.
- 9 March 2000; 23 years ago
- Online encyclopedia
- Bomis (formerly)
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.
- English, French, Spanish, Italian, German
- Online encyclopedia
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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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.
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.
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.
Apr 12, 2024 · Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with appropriate 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.
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