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	Nupedia
		Nupedia was characterized by an extensive peer review process designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to professional encyclopedias.
		Nupedia was always intended as a free content encyclopedia.
		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.
	www.mcfly.org /Nupedia (512 words)

	Edit This Page: GNE's Not an Encyclopedia - a briefer History of Wikipedia :: Wikis, Search, Hypertext on a platter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
		Neither GNUPedia or Nupedia turned out to be as successful as their visionaries had hoped, but the spirit lived on to create a truly free and universal encyclopedia.
		Today, Nupedia and GNUPedia data are still available on the web, each as a historical relic.
	www.qwikly.com /2005/09/gnes-not-encyclopedia-briefer-history.html (515 words)

	The Origins of Wikipedia, 2001, by Larry Sanger - MemoryArchive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A lot of the details of the Nupedia policy and processes were, I think, proposed by me, but then tweaked and elaborated by others, and the policy was not published as project policy until we had a quorum of editors and peer reviewers who could fully discuss and approve of a policy statement.
		The general public on Nupedia was certainly interested and motivated, and I think it was finally becoming generally accepted by the Advisory Board that the complexity of the system was the main reason that they were not starting articles and getting them through the system.
		Nupedia's Advisory Board failed to admit to inherent flaws in its system, and its delay in admission shut the window of opportunity to its improvement.
	www.memorywiki.org /en/The_Origins_of_Wikipedia,_2001,_by_Larry_Sanger (12173 words)

	Slashdot \| The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir
		Nupedia was to be a highly reliable, peer-reviewed resource that fully appreciated and employed the efforts of subject area experts, as well as the general public.
		Nupedia's Advisory Board might be surprised to learn that Jimmy (alone!) "scrapped the review process." Jimmy was certainly disappointed with the process (as were many people), and he did not actively support it after 2001 or so.
		The general public on Nupedia was certainly interested and motivated, and I think it was finally becoming generally accepted by the Advisory Board that the complexity of the system was the main reason that they were not starting articles and getting them through the system.
	features.slashdot.org /article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213 (11209 words)

	Historical Wikipedia pages/Wikipedia and Nupedia - Meta
		Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief of Nupedia, seriously advanced for discussion the idea of switching Nupedia's editorial process to a less bottleneck-ridden, wiki type of process.
		The general sense that Nupedia arrived at is that, while some changes in Nupedia's editorial process might be warranted, we should wait several months before making any change.
		The Chalkboard was an experimental wiki set up by the Nupedia Project, in an attempt to use the wiki process in the creation of Nupedia articles.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Historical_Wikipedia_pages/Wikipedia_and_Nupedia (1441 words)

	Nupedia: Policy Guidelines
		Nupedia cannot succeed without a motivated volunteer base, therefore it is a good idea to explain why it's important to join and work on the project.
		The Nupedia encyclopedia is a public endeavor; its articles will be publicly accessible and distributable in accordance with our open content license, and it will be constructed by qualified members of the international public.
		Nupedia articles should avoid describing controversial views, persons, events, etc., in language that can plausibly be regarded as implying some value judgment, whether positive or negative, except when the judgment is on some relatively innocuous matter and is virtually universal.
	nupedia.8media.org /policy.shtml (18525 words)

	The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology and Society
		At the time of its demise, Nupedia’s content comprised a paltry 23 articles and some 60 more unfinished entries.
		Nupedia’s co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger attributed this poor showing to the cumbersome process of review by credentialed experts with specialized knowledge, the preferred method of encyclopedia-makers past.
		So they rolled the dice on a new peer-review model based on Web software called “wiki,” which allows multiple users not only to contribute to but also to edit a common pool of information.
	www.thenewatlantis.com /archive/7/soa/wikipedia.htm (891 words)

	EXN.ca \| Technology
		Nupedia is an "open" content project, created by San Diego-based Bomis Inc in a similar vein to open source software, such as the Linux operating system, and the dmoz.org Open Directory Project.
		Such projects rely on an army of volunteers and contributors to develop a product or resource that, over time, would be hard to achieve to the same level by one company with a limited number of staff.
		Nupedia can be found on the Web, at http://www.nupedia.com/.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/2000/03/11/03.asp (311 words)

	Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you may try using the talk page or start a discussion at the village pump.
		You should note that Nupedia is the source of the article and provide a link to the original.
		It was not officially approved in Nupedia, but was at the "open review" step by the Biology group: lead reviewer, Gaytha Langlois ; with the assistance of other area(s): Computers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Nupedia_and_Wikipedia (442 words)

	Introducing the Nupedia Chalkboard - Meta
		The Nupedia project is very proud of its carefully-developed peer-review system, but it has become clear to many Nupedians that it poses so many roadblocks to progress, that some change is necessary if Nupedia is to become useful anytime soon--some change, but without sacrificing quality.
		Nupedia, meanwhile, is the slowest-moving but doubtless the highest-quality of the cluster.
		A live article is an article that's been approved and posted on the main Nupedia website (not the Chalkboard).
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Introducing_the_Nupedia_Chalkboard (672 words)

	Wikinfo \| Nupedia
		Nupedia is an online encyclopedia project founded in March 2000 by Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger.
		After an eighteen month gap from 12 October, 2001, Nupedia released two more articles on April 26, 2003, on source code and bacteria.
		A new version of the Nupedia code is being developed (and in trial use at a different website), dubbed NuNupedia.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Nupedia (285 words)

	Reagle on the Wikipedia. Many-to-Many: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nupedia’s mission was to create a free encyclopedia via rigorous expert review under a free documentation license.
		However, “There was considerable resistance on the part of Nupedia’s editors and reviewers, however, to making Nupedia closely associated with a website in the wiki format.
		The ‘filter, then publish model’ of Nupedia, for all its considerable virtues, is simply inadequate to deal with rapid growth (only 23 articles completed!).
	many.corante.com /archives/2005/01/04/reagle_on_the_wikipedia.php (348 words)

	Slashdot \| Nupedia and Project Gutenberg Directors Answer
		At Nupedia, we are using the TEI-Lite XML dtd (or, we try to, although we need technical help) to markup the articles in a fashion that will make it easy for people to reuse our articles in all kinds of formats, from plaintext ascii to paper publishing, to hypertext, etc.
		At Nupedia, one of the things we hope to do is to make sure that we can make our information available in _many_ formats for schools.
		Nupedia has a open community of peer reviewers; anyone can join the community, but to actually get a change into the official distribution, you have to convince the maintainers -- just like with free software.
	slashdot.org /articles/01/03/02/1422244_F.shtml (16389 words)

	Upstart Open Content Encyclopedia Threatens to Displace Britannica, Encarta
		Nupedia.com (http://www.nupedia.com), an Open Content encyclopedia project started last February, is threatening to become the dominant encyclopedia reference of the 21st century, displacing ordinary proprietary encyclopedias in the same way that the open source operating system, Linux, is threatening to displace Windows.
		Nupedia's successful efforts at recruitment of volunteer editors and writers and at the design of a functioning editorial system are more illustrations of the success of the Open Source/Open Content movement.
		"Nupedia is one of the most felicitous brain-children of the Internet yet to appear," said project participant John T. Kirby, Professor of Classics and Chair of the program in Comparative Literature at Purdue University.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-09-2000/0001361975&EDATE= (447 words)

	Nupedia: The Open Content Encyclopedia - Andamooka Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Nupedia Encyclopedia ("the Content") is a compilation of many people's contributions.
		Items other than copying, distributing, and modifying the Content with which this license was distributed (such as using, etc.) are outside the scope of this license.
		Bomis, Inc. grants you the non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the above identified Nupedia attribution statements solely for the purpose of the above attribution requirements, and such use must be in accordance with the usage guidelines that may be published by Nupedia from time to time as part of the above URLs.
	www.andamooka.org /reader.pl?section=nupedia (721 words)

	FLORA.ca - online, peer-reviewed, international encyclopedia.
		Nupedia is a new online, peer-reviewed, international encyclopedia.
		Nupedia is "open content" or "free"; we want the contents of the encyclopedia to receive the widest possible distribution.
		Nupedia seemed to not necessarly demand a PhD on the topic you are writting.
	weblog.flora.ca /article.php3?story_id=83 (255 words)

	PCWorld.com - Building the World's Biggest Encyclopedia
		Nupedia is creating an online knowledge resource in the spirit of the open-source movement.
		As an open-source project, Nupedia is open to all forms of contribution.
		Nupedia is also establishing a verification system to ensure that the expert contributors are, in fact, experts.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,15676,00.asp (508 words)

	Britannica or Nupedia? The Future of Free Encyclopedias \|\| kuro5hin.org
		It seems that the rigorous system it has in place--which does seem to be necessary in order for a body of volunteers to generate really high-quality content--is so arduous that most volunteers do not feel their time is well-spent on it.
		Nupedia articles, while arriving at a stately clip, are uniformly superb.
		As the projects become better and better known, and as more examples of the excellent results Nupedia's rigorous review process appear, it is only natural that it should become a more widely-recognized academic honor to be associated with Nupedia.
	www.kuro5hin.org /story/2001/7/25/103136/121 (4311 words)

	Open Source Intelligence
		Nupedia - the name is a combination of GNU and encyclopedia - is a project to create an authoritative encyclopedia inspired, and morally supported, by Richard Stallman's GNU project [13].
		However, apart from being published under an open license, Nupedia's structure is similar to the traditional editorial process.
		Following the open source peer-review maxim, formulated by Eric Raymond as "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow," this allows the project to grow not only in number of articles, but also in terms of the articles' depth, which should improve over time through the collective input of knowledgeable readers.
	firstmonday.org /issues/issue7_6/stalder (5352 words)

	Nupedia: About Nupedia
		In any case, you will have to sign up as a member (which is free, of course); about this, you might wish to read our information on general membership.
		Our goal is to grow Nupedia indefinitely, to set a new standard for breadth, depth, timeliness, and lack of bias, and in the fullness of time to become the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the history of humankind.
		Nupedia is a genuine online community, and we want you part of it.
	nupedia.8media.org /about.shtml (955 words)

	Nu Pedia
		Nupedia is trying to start its own wiki, inspired by the original!
		Nupedia is "OpenContent"; we want the contents of the encyclopedia to receive the widest possible distribution.
		Our goal is to grow Nupedia indefinitely, to set a new standard for breadth, depth, timeliness, and lack of bias, and in the fullness of time to become the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the history of humankind.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?NuPedia (740 words)

	Networking: website watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The creators of Nupedia, an online encyclopædia, have set themselves a daunting task: to create "the most comprehensive encyclopædia in the history of humankind" and to make it available free of charge.
		Nupedia's parent company is the San Diego-based Bomis, Inc.
		Anyone can join Nupedia and submit an article; but editors and peer reviewers must possess solid qualifications (usually a doctorate) in their fields, and all articles are guided by a subject editor and reviewed by at least three subject experts before copy editing.
	thenode.org /networking/february2001/website.html (218 words)

	Friendly Arguments: The Wikipedia Case
		Sanger immediately saw this as a possible remedy to Nupedia's problems, permitting wider "uncredentialed" contribution and collaboration on articles that would then be fed to Nupedia's "credentialed" editorial review.
		As to Nupedia's use of a wiki, this is the ULTIMATE "open" and simple format for developing content.
		On the front page of the Nupedia wiki we'd make it ABSOLUTELY clear that this is experimental, that Nupedia editors don't have control of what goes on here, and that the quality of articles, discussion, etc., should not be taken as a reflection of the quality of articles, review, etc.
	reagle.org /joseph/2005/historical/digital-works.html (6299 words)

	Wikipedia - SourceWatch
		Wales sought a method whereby a larger group of users could asynchronously or simultaneously review content.
		Wiki software, which allows casual users easier access to editing tools, offered Wales an alternative to the problems he saw in the Nupedia model.
		Administrators revoke edit privileges at their discretion based on policies, and on their opinion of content or contributors.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia (1494 words)

	DB Techies Newsletter No 6
		The Nupedia is a new online encyclopedia which is quite good, this is what Nupedia say about themselves.
		There goal is to grow Nupedia indefinitely, to set a new standard for breadth, depth, timeliness, and lack of bias, and in the fullness of time to become the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the history of humankind.
		Nupedia is open content, this means that you will be able to use any part of the contents of Nupedia.com in any way you see fit, with there compliments.
	www.deafblind.com /dbtechies6.html (2136 words)

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