Nupedia
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Nupedia was a website with encyclopedia pages. It was founded in 2000 by Jimbo Wales, who also started its successor, Wikipedia. Larry Sanger was its editor-in-chief. Only the people who worked it could change the articles, all of which went through peer review. Twenty-four articles made it through the system, with another seventy-four in progress, before the site went out of operation in September 2003.
[edit] Websites
- Earlier versions of Nupedia (from the Internet Archive)
- The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir Part 1 and Part 2 from Slashdot.
- Nupedia's Website (search engine is down)
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