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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.
Nupedia was a low activity open content, international, peer reviewed online encyclopedia project formerly run by Larry Sanger.Sanger also started Wikipedia alongside Jimmy Wales when he got the idea of supplementing Nupedia with a less formal "wiki" online encyclopedia project.
The oldest article for which there is no break in the history, either because of being changed into a redirect or a lack of surviving revisions, is Nupedia, which has an edit from 00:08, 17 January 2001 (UTC), after a history merge with the old title of "NuPedia" and imports from the Nostalgia Wikipedia and the August 2001 database dump.
Nupedia: English: Combined with GNUpedia Defunct None GFDL 1.1 or later None None Interpedia: English: General interest, the first site to propose a free encyclopedia written by users Defunct None Unknown Free None Everipedia: English [1] General interest Read-only (archived) Free [2] CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia None Citizendium: English General ...
After a Nupedia wiki was launched under nupedia.com on 10 January 2001, [36] 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." [37] A new wiki was launched at wikipedia.com on Monday 15 January 2001.
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 problem to organize people online to create encyclopedias". [26] Articles were reviewed through Nupedia's email system before being posted on the site. [27]
Wikipedia quickly overtook Nupedia, becoming a global project in multiple languages and inspiring a wide range of additional reference projects. 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 by experts and licensed ...
Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country. In grayed-out countries, the "national-language" edition is usually the most popular, but there are exceptions: for example, Afghanistan has Persian Wikipedia as the most popular (there is no Dari Wikipedia).