Nupedia

As Wales and Sanger sought ways to make it easier for people to contribute to Nupedia, they came across a potential solution: a new technology called a wiki used by software developers for radical collaboration. It enabled …
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Nupedia. Nupedia is Wikipedia's predecessor. It was, compared to Wikipedia, a failure, largely because it was not open enough to editing by everyone (or almost everyone). …
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, recounts the origins and history of Nupedia, the free online encyclopedia project that preceded Wikipedia. He also reflects on the current state and …
He began to oversee Nupedia in February 2000, [24] developing a review process for articles and recruiting editors. [25] Through working on Nupedia, Sanger "found that it was a fascinating …
Hires Larry Sanger to help him build Nupedia, an online encyclopedia with rigorous standards and written by scholars.
Originally the procedures being developed were a rather clumsy adaptation of the hard-copy academic publishing model. Nupedia a seven step process and an advisory body …
Nupedia – the predecessor of Wikipedia. Nupedia was an English-language Web-based encyclopedia that lasted from March 2000 [ 40 ] until September 2003. Its articles were written …
In March 2000, perhaps inspired by objectivist “openness,” he founded a free online encyclopaedia called Nupedia, which sought free contributions from scholars and other …
Bomis created Nupedia as a free online encyclopedia (with content submitted by experts) but it had a tedious, slow review process. [28] [29] Wikipedia was initially launched by Bomis to …
Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the non-profit free …
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