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Apr 18, 2005 · Indeed. According to the Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org], Nupedia was the original plan. It was going to be a truly professional construct similar to Britannica Online. Wikipedia was created as a way of collecting rough material for Nupedia, but the child ended up surpassing the parent in every way imaginable.
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- Introduction
- Wiki Technology
- Nupedia
- Wikipedia
- The Cathedral and The Bazaar
This case study looks at how the Wikimedia Movement, centred around Wikipedia, grew from being originally a side project of Nupedia, to holding its current position as the 6th most popular website in the world. The first free online encyclopaedia was launched in October 1999 by Encyclopedia Britannica, which could trace back its origins to Edinburg...
Before analysing the different business models, it is useful to look at the technological innovation which led to the Wikipedia phenomenon. 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 e...
In 1996 Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell set up Bomis. Wales had studied finance before becoming a player on the Chicago stock market. After six years he had made enough money that he would not need to work again. Having come across the Open Source movement he wondered if the same technique of mass user involvement could be used to develop an encyclopedia...
Wikipedia's business model has evolved as it has grown. Within a year it had attracted 350 users and generated 15,000 articles with 200 characters or more. By that time Nupedia was up to 25 articles with several dozen in preparation. Sanger proposed developing a simpler process to get articles up to standard. Originally Wikipedia was conceived as a...
When Wales was originally discussing Nupedia with Sanger, he mentioned Eric S. Raymond's book The Cathedral and the Bazaar which had recently been published. Raymond was also an avid reader of Ayn Rand. Adam Curtis has commented on the role of Rand's libertarian views on the growth of what Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron dubbed The Californian Id...
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Sep 19, 2019 · Wikipedia’s two founders, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, famously created Wikipedia as an experiment that would produce content to feed into a more tightly managed and expert authored encyclopedia project called Nupedia. With a body of rules designed to ensure high quality articles vetted by experts, Nupedia famously failed to attract more ...
Apr 19, 2005 · 100 of 140 loaded. 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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Chapter 20. The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir. Larry Sanger. An impassioned debate has been raging, particularly since about the summer of 2004, concerning the merits of Wikipedia and the future of free online encyclopedias. This discussion has not benefited by much detailed, accurate consideration of the origins of ...
Nov 22, 2019 · Background In March 2001, the leadership of Nupedia began serious consideration of the idea of working more closely with Wikipedia, or else setting up a Nupedia wiki.Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief of Nupedia, seriously advanced for discussion the idea of switching Nupedia's editorial process to a less bottleneck-ridden, wiki type of process.
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