Wikipedia was the brainchild of financial trader Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger. In March 2000, they created Nupedia, a free online English encyclopedia with articles written by experts.

Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001. At that time, Sanger was the editor-in-chief of a similar site named Nupedia.

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Wikipedia was first started as a subsidiary project for Nupedia, a free English encyclopedia whose pieces were written by subject experts and reviewed under a formal process. Bomis CEO Jimmy Wales ...

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Before co-founding the site, he served as editor-in-chief of Nupedia, Wikipedia's predecessor. He received a master's of art from OSU in 1995 and a doctorate in philosophy in 2000. Honorable mentions ...

On this day in 2001, the website for the English language version of Wikipedia, a publicly editable, online encyclopedia, was launched. Beginning its life as a side project of Nupedia, a more ...

Back then, Nupedia and Wikipedia were only available in English. Of course, a traditionally written encyclopedia can’t grow as fast as a community-driven one.

4. Jimmy and his team, first built Wikipedia to provide content for Nupedia, their free online encyclopedia, with the content submitted by experts. However, the tedious and slow review process on ...