The idea stemmed from an earlier project called Nupedia, which was a similar online encyclopaedia but with a more rigorous and slower expert review process for content creation. Wikipedia's more ...

Around the same time, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia as a side project to Nupedia, an online encyclopedia they planned to fill with peer-reviewed content written by experts.

Wales used profits from Bomis.com to start an online encyclopedia, Nupedia, which led in 2001 to the creation of Wikipedia -- a free online encyclopedia which allowed anyone to create new entries or ...

The idea stemmed from an earlier project called Nupedia, which was a similar online encyclopaedia but with a more rigorous and slower expert review process for content creation. Wikipedia's more open ...