Nupedia

Nupedia

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Type of site	Online encyclopedia
Available in	English, French, Spanish, Italian, German
Owner	Bomis
Created by	Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger
URL	www.nupedia.com at the Wayback Machine (archived February 15, 2003) www.nupedia.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 April 2000)
Launched	9 March 2000; 24 years ago (2000-03-09)
Current status	Defunct since 26 September 2003; succeeded by Wikipedia

Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia. Its articles were written by volunteers and checked by experts. They were licensed as open content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Nupedia was online from March 2000^[1] until September 2003. It is mostly known as the website which came before Wikipedia.

Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki. It also had a long peer-review process for all of its articles. This was supposed to make its articles as good as professional encyclopedias. Nupedia wanted scholars to help build it. Before it shut down, Nupedia had 25 articles^[2] that completed its own review routine.

In June 2008, CNET said that Nupedia was one of the greatest closed websites in Internet history.^[3]

1. ↑ Poe, Marshall (September 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 1, 2007.
2. ↑ Shun-Ling, Chen (May 5, 2010). "Self-governing online communities in Web 2.0: privacy, anonymity and accountability in Wikipedia" (PDF). Albany Law Journal. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 30, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
3. ↑ Lanxon, Nate (June 5, 2008). "The greatest defunct Web sites and dotcom disasters". CNET. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2008.