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Nupedia operated from October 1999 [1] [2] 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. Nupedia was designed by a committee of experts who predefined the rules.
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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After a Nupedia wiki was launched under nupedia.com on 10 January 2001, [34] Wales proposed launching the new project under its own name, and Sanger proposed Wikipedia, framing it as "a supplementary project to Nupedia which operates entirely independently."
Wikipedia led to the gradual shutdown of Nupedia. Jimmy Wales decided to stop paying Sanger in December 2001. [1] Sanger then left both Nupedia and Wikipedia. After Sanger left, Nupedia became even less noticed than Wikipedia. As Nupedia was used less and less, the idea of changing its articles into Wikipedia articles was sometimes proposed.
Apr 19, 2005 · 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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Nupedia was the predecessor of Wikipedia, an expert-written encyclopedia. It was online from March 2000 until September 2003. At the time of its closure, there were 24 finished articles on Nupedia with many more being made.
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.
