A fresh crop of Internet-based encyclopedias hope to harness the best information sources on the Net: Know-it-all users.

Jan. 15, 2001 Sixteen years ago, while working on Nupedia, an online encyclopedia written by scholars, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched a second free online encyclopedia that anyone could ...

Nupedia was written by experts and reviewed the traditional way. It was still free, but it wasn’t much different than a good ol’ encyclopedia. Back then, Nupedia and Wikipedia were only ...

Wikipedia began as an offshoot of Nupedia, an online encyclopedia started by the two partners in 2000. They planned to ask academics to submit articles that would be peer-reviewed and posted free ...

Andrew Lih talked about his book [The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia] (Hyperion; March 17, 2009). He talked about the founding of Wikipedia ...

The reference to natural selectionis apt, because as Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales admits, he's had many more plausible ideas fail: his online food-ordering system Loop Lunch; his search engine ...

The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem ...

Each Nupedia article would require seven levels of editing, which made for accuracy but was also slow going. By the end of 2000, only 12 articles had been published.

Nupedia begat Wikipedia, and its founders were determined not to repeat Nupedia's mistakes. But even with the best of intentions, Wikipedia stumbled.

Nupedia had had a seven-step article approval process and was intended to be better than an encyclopedia, but one of the first articles to get through had to be taken down for plagiarism.

On Wednesday, January 15th 2007, Wikipedia (Wikipedia) celebrated its 6th anniversary. However, it is not well known that there was "Nupedia" (Nupedia) before this Wikipedia. Nupedia was started ...