#REDIRECT Nupedia
Nupedia was a World Wide Web encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia lasted from March 2000 until September 2003, and is mostly known now as the predecessor of Wikipedia. Nupedia was characterized by an extensive peer review process designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to professional encyclopedias. Nupedia wanted scholars to volunteer content for free. Before it ceased operating, Nupedia produced 24 articles that completed its review process (three articles also existed in two versions of different lengths), and 74 more articles were in progress. ==History== Nupedia was always intended as a free content encyclopedia. Initially the project used a homegrown license, the Nupedia Open Content License. In January 2001 it switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urgings of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. However, Stallman also started the GNUPedia project at the same time, which led to concerns about possible competition between the projects. One issue for GNUPedia participants was that in spite of Nupedia's use of a free content license, the extensive formal peer review ran counter to the culture and philosophy of the free software movement. During this same time period, Nupedia started Wikipedia as a side project to allow collaboration on articles prior to entering the peer review process. This attracted interest from both sides, as it provided the less bureaucratic structure favored by GNUPedia advocates. As a result, GNUPedia never really developed and the threat of competition between the projects was averted. As Wikipedia grew and attracted contributors, it quickly developed a life of its own and began to function largely independent of Nupedia, although Sanger initially led activity on Wikipedia by virtue of his position as Nupedia editor-in-chief. Besides aborting the GNUPedia project, Wikipedia also led to the gradual demise of Nupedia. Bomis decided to discontinue funding for a salaried editor-in-chief in February 2002, and Sanger resigned from both projects soon thereafter. After his departure, Nupedia increasingly became an afterthought to Wikipedia (of the Nupedia articles that completed the review process, only two did so after 2001). As Nupedia dwindled into inactivity, the idea of converting it into a stable version of approved Wikipedia articles was occasionally broached, but never implemented. The Nupedia website shut down on September 26, 2003, and Nupedia's limited content was assimilated into Wikipedia. ==The editorial process== Nupedia had a seven step editorial process, consisting of: #Assignment #Finding a lead reviewer #Lead review #Open review #Lead copyediting #Open copyediting #Final approval and markup The bar to become a Nupedia contributor was relatively high, with the policy stating, "We wish editors to be true experts in their fields and (with few exceptions) possess Ph.D.s." == Software development == Nupedia was powered by NupeCode collaborative software. NupeCode is open source software (released under the GNU General Public License) designed for large peer review projects. The code was available via Nupedia's Concurrent_Versions_System repository. As part of the project, a new version of the original software (called "NuNupedia") was under development. NuNupedia was implemented for testing purposes at SourceForge, but never reached sufficient development to replace the original software. ==External links== * [http://nupedia.8media.org/ Nupedia website] (The www.nupedia.com address is offline and has not been restored; this link is a copy of the site before it was taken down) * [http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nupedia.com/main.shtml Earlier versions of Nupedia] (from the Internet Archive) Online encyclopedias Wikipedia history
Nupedia is a failure. Since Jan 2001, 10 (ten) new articles appeared, 9 of them being `brief versions', and one `medium-lenght'. Policy says that you have to be PhD to contribute, but maybe, as an exception, they'll allow you to write even though you aren't PhD. How many contributors do they expect ? We should forget about Nupedia and add some quality assurance features to Wikipedia. It's much better to have 50k good articles and 50k reasonable-quality ones instead of 1k excelent articles. It's just another :Cathedral vs. Bazaar issue. -- Taw ---- The reason Nupedia is having trouble right now is that we've had trouble convincing academics that it is indeed a bona fide cathedral. If we were to convince them of that--which I think we will, eventually--you'll see just how wrong you really are (that Nupedia is a failure). I am 100% opposed to adding "quality assurance features" to Wikipedia that involve making it harder for people to edit articles. Wikipedia's freedom ''is'' its quality assurance. --User:LMS ---- I agree that calling Nupedia a "failure" at this point in the game is incredibly short-sighted. It's actually quite remarkable what it has already accomplished, and it gives every indication that it will accomplish much more. The existence of Wikipedia and the Chalkboard will help a lot; I think one more thing that would help a lot is to drop the focus on short articles--it's much easier for authors to produce longer articles, and they will get more reward out of doing so. Shortening them can (and should) be done by proficient editors with expert consultation, not by the authors themselves. --User:Lee Daniel Crocker ----- one thing to check when counting nupedia articles is the "in progress" bin - I think there were more than 50 in there when I counted the other day. Speed-to-completion is an issue, but it looks like it's moving rather than standing still --MichaelTinkler ---- Maybe Chalkboard will change things, but if Nupedia were going to continue to work the way it's working now, it would fail. Examples of QA features that can be added now to wiki: * Button mail me all changes to this article * Make adding References more popular than it is now. Wikipedia freedom is the most important QA, but it needs some help to scale up. Most important problem now is that if someone screws existing article on niche subject, chances are high that nobody will even notice for a long time. --Taw :I think there are ways to prevent this last point. You can search for two things: : 1) articles which haven't been accessed in a LONG time. This will catch articles that have never been peer reviewed. : 2) articles which have been only ever edited by less than N number of people. This will catch POV articles written by one person which were never peer reviewed. User:Dgrant 17:51, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- I feel the same that we judge quality of articles that we're knowledgable about thinking that in other areas is the same.
As for Nupedia, maybe they are just waiting for us to finish ;-)
User:Kpjas ---- This article has a lot of basic information missing: * What was the final article count in terms of what Nupedia produced? * What were the policies about signing up for Nupedia? * What were the requirements for being an approved author? User:Fuzheado 09:49, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) :Check the web site in its last archived state: :http://web.archive.org/web/20030620073342/www.nupedia.com/main.shtml :I count 68 articles in progress and 23 "complete" as of June 2003; the last "completed" article was posted in October 2001. --User:Brion VIBBER 10:08, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::I recounted and came up with 74 in progress, 24 complete (27 actually, but three have both "brief" and "long" versions). Two completed articles finished the process after 2001. --User:Michael Snow 19:47, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) :: I'd like to see in the Wiki article the list of subjects Nupedia articles were written on, and if they have all been adopted into Wiki or not? Also, have they been improved afterwards? Do you think that would be a good addition to the current article? --User:Piotrus 14:24, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC) ===Ready for past tense yet?=== So when do we start changing all the verbs to past tense? User:Anthony DiPierro 14:54, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) :Nupedia has been offline for 160 days. Half a year offline time is enough for me to think that nupedia is history. User:Sverdrup User talk:Sverdrup 15:01, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) == Nupedia vs. Wikipedia == Nupedia is a former version of Wikipedia that became offline about a year ago. Any stories about Wikipedia?? I hope Wikipedia never becomes offline. Any time in history when it almost did?? User:66.32.255.74 17:33, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC) :The closest we've come in the time I've been hear was around this March - before we got the squids. One of our database servers (Geoffrin) was dead, and the other (Ariel?) was running at 100% constantly. Page loads took a minute or more. Since then, we've bought *a lot* of squids (25 or 30) to ease the load. User:Raul654 18:35, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC) Shouldn't there be a redirect to Wikipedia from the old Nupedia URL on the web? Unless of course there are bigger issues, but right now it is link rot. User:Spalding 16:59, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC) == What happened to Nupedia? == Um, what happened to Nupedia? Why has it gone down? I just heard about it a few days ago, and was wondering why it's disappeared now. :Nupedia is dead because people lost interest in the project long ago. It's offline because the server it had been hosted on was not properly backed up, so the database was lost when it was cleaned and reinstalled after a compromise. (This was on a Bomis machine, not one of ours, in September 2003... well over a year after the project died for all intents and purposes.) If anyone had/has alternate backups, nobody's cared enough to dig them out and put it back online. --User:Brion VIBBER 03:05, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC) == Is Nupedia getting started again? == I got an email saying that the Nupedia website is now available at a new URL: http://nupedia.8media.org/ Is this legit, or is it some sort of scam/spam? --User:Flow 22:24, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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#REDIRECT Nupedia
Nupedia
Nupedia was a World Wide Web encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia lasted from March 2000 until September 2003, and is mostly known now as the predecessor of Wikipedia. Nupedia was characterized by an extensive peer review process designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to professional encyclopedias. Nupedia wanted scholars to volunteer content for free. Before it ceased operating, Nupedia produced 24 articles that completed its review process (three articles also existed in two versions of different lengths), and 74 more articles were in progress. ==History== Nupedia was always intended as a free content encyclopedia. Initially the project used a homegrown license, the Nupedia Open Content License. In January 2001 it switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urgings of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. However, Stallman also started the GNUPedia project at the same time, which led to concerns about possible competition between the projects. One issue for GNUPedia participants was that in spite of Nupedia's use of a free content license, the extensive formal peer review ran counter to the culture and philosophy of the free software movement. During this same time period, Nupedia started Wikipedia as a side project to allow collaboration on articles prior to entering the peer review process. This attracted interest from both sides, as it provided the less bureaucratic structure favored by GNUPedia advocates. As a result, GNUPedia never really developed and the threat of competition between the projects was averted. As Wikipedia grew and attracted contributors, it quickly developed a life of its own and began to function largely independent of Nupedia, although Sanger initially led activity on Wikipedia by virtue of his position as Nupedia editor-in-chief. Besides aborting the GNUPedia project, Wikipedia also led to the gradual demise of Nupedia. Bomis decided to discontinue funding for a salaried editor-in-chief in February 2002, and Sanger resigned from both projects soon thereafter. After his departure, Nupedia increasingly became an afterthought to Wikipedia (of the Nupedia articles that completed the review process, only two did so after 2001). As Nupedia dwindled into inactivity, the idea of converting it into a stable version of approved Wikipedia articles was occasionally broached, but never implemented. The Nupedia website shut down on September 26, 2003, and Nupedia's limited content was assimilated into Wikipedia. ==The editorial process== Nupedia had a seven step editorial process, consisting of: #Assignment #Finding a lead reviewer #Lead review #Open review #Lead copyediting #Open copyediting #Final approval and markup The bar to become a Nupedia contributor was relatively high, with the policy stating, "We wish editors to be true experts in their fields and (with few exceptions) possess Ph.D.s." == Software development == Nupedia was powered by NupeCode collaborative software. NupeCode is open source software (released under the GNU General Public License) designed for large peer review projects. The code was available via Nupedia's Concurrent_Versions_System repository. As part of the project, a new version of the original software (called "NuNupedia") was under development. NuNupedia was implemented for testing purposes at SourceForge, but never reached sufficient development to replace the original software. ==External links== * [http://nupedia.8media.org/ Nupedia website] (The www.nupedia.com address is offline and has not been restored; this link is a copy of the site before it was taken down) * [http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nupedia.com/main.shtml Earlier versions of Nupedia] (from the Internet Archive) Online encyclopedias Wikipedia history
Nupedia
Nupedia is a failure. Since Jan 2001, 10 (ten) new articles appeared, 9 of them being `brief versions', and one `medium-lenght'. Policy says that you have to be PhD to contribute, but maybe, as an exception, they'll allow you to write even though you aren't PhD. How many contributors do they expect ? We should forget about Nupedia and add some quality assurance features to Wikipedia. It's much better to have 50k good articles and 50k reasonable-quality ones instead of 1k excelent articles. It's just another :Cathedral vs. Bazaar issue. -- Taw ---- The reason Nupedia is having trouble right now is that we've had trouble convincing academics that it is indeed a bona fide cathedral. If we were to convince them of that--which I think we will, eventually--you'll see just how wrong you really are (that Nupedia is a failure). I am 100% opposed to adding "quality assurance features" to Wikipedia that involve making it harder for people to edit articles. Wikipedia's freedom ''is'' its quality assurance. --User:LMS ---- I agree that calling Nupedia a "failure" at this point in the game is incredibly short-sighted. It's actually quite remarkable what it has already accomplished, and it gives every indication that it will accomplish much more. The existence of Wikipedia and the Chalkboard will help a lot; I think one more thing that would help a lot is to drop the focus on short articles--it's much easier for authors to produce longer articles, and they will get more reward out of doing so. Shortening them can (and should) be done by proficient editors with expert consultation, not by the authors themselves. --User:Lee Daniel Crocker ----- one thing to check when counting nupedia articles is the "in progress" bin - I think there were more than 50 in there when I counted the other day. Speed-to-completion is an issue, but it looks like it's moving rather than standing still --MichaelTinkler ---- Maybe Chalkboard will change things, but if Nupedia were going to continue to work the way it's working now, it would fail. Examples of QA features that can be added now to wiki: * Button mail me all changes to this article * Make adding References more popular than it is now. Wikipedia freedom is the most important QA, but it needs some help to scale up. Most important problem now is that if someone screws existing article on niche subject, chances are high that nobody will even notice for a long time. --Taw :I think there are ways to prevent this last point. You can search for two things: : 1) articles which haven't been accessed in a LONG time. This will catch articles that have never been peer reviewed. : 2) articles which have been only ever edited by less than N number of people. This will catch POV articles written by one person which were never peer reviewed. User:Dgrant 17:51, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- I feel the same that we judge quality of articles that we're knowledgable about thinking that in other areas is the same.
As for Nupedia, maybe they are just waiting for us to finish ;-)
User:Kpjas ---- This article has a lot of basic information missing: * What was the final article count in terms of what Nupedia produced? * What were the policies about signing up for Nupedia? * What were the requirements for being an approved author? User:Fuzheado 09:49, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) :Check the web site in its last archived state: :http://web.archive.org/web/20030620073342/www.nupedia.com/main.shtml :I count 68 articles in progress and 23 "complete" as of June 2003; the last "completed" article was posted in October 2001. --User:Brion VIBBER 10:08, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::I recounted and came up with 74 in progress, 24 complete (27 actually, but three have both "brief" and "long" versions). Two completed articles finished the process after 2001. --User:Michael Snow 19:47, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) :: I'd like to see in the Wiki article the list of subjects Nupedia articles were written on, and if they have all been adopted into Wiki or not? Also, have they been improved afterwards? Do you think that would be a good addition to the current article? --User:Piotrus 14:24, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC) ===Ready for past tense yet?=== So when do we start changing all the verbs to past tense? User:Anthony DiPierro 14:54, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) :Nupedia has been offline for 160 days. Half a year offline time is enough for me to think that nupedia is history. User:Sverdrup User talk:Sverdrup 15:01, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) == Nupedia vs. Wikipedia == Nupedia is a former version of Wikipedia that became offline about a year ago. Any stories about Wikipedia?? I hope Wikipedia never becomes offline. Any time in history when it almost did?? User:66.32.255.74 17:33, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC) :The closest we've come in the time I've been hear was around this March - before we got the squids. One of our database servers (Geoffrin) was dead, and the other (Ariel?) was running at 100% constantly. Page loads took a minute or more. Since then, we've bought *a lot* of squids (25 or 30) to ease the load. User:Raul654 18:35, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC) Shouldn't there be a redirect to Wikipedia from the old Nupedia URL on the web? Unless of course there are bigger issues, but right now it is link rot. User:Spalding 16:59, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC) == What happened to Nupedia? == Um, what happened to Nupedia? Why has it gone down? I just heard about it a few days ago, and was wondering why it's disappeared now. :Nupedia is dead because people lost interest in the project long ago. It's offline because the server it had been hosted on was not properly backed up, so the database was lost when it was cleaned and reinstalled after a compromise. (This was on a Bomis machine, not one of ours, in September 2003... well over a year after the project died for all intents and purposes.) If anyone had/has alternate backups, nobody's cared enough to dig them out and put it back online. --User:Brion VIBBER 03:05, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC) == Is Nupedia getting started again? == I got an email saying that the Nupedia website is now available at a new URL: http://nupedia.8media.org/ Is this legit, or is it some sort of scam/spam? --User:Flow 22:24, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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