At that time, Sanger was the editor-in-chief of a similar site named Nupedia. He claimed that the situation is such because Wikipedia follows the news media and that “they've gotten rid of ...

Netizens have reacted to Wikipedia, the world's largest online free-content encyclopedia, turning 24 on January 15. The company was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Since 2003, it ...

“I actually fought a bit in the first 14 months of Wikipedia’s existence to articulate the same neutrality we had in Nupedia,” Mr. Sanger tells the Sun, referring to his previous project. The ...

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 ...

Beginning its life as a side project of Nupedia, a more conventional online encyclopedia, Wikipedia grew to become a ubiquitous cultural touchstone, featuring as recently as last week in a ...

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The immediate predecessor of Wikipedia was Nupedia, founded by Jimmy Wales, owner of the company Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia lasted from March 2000 to September 2003. In ...

Interestingly, it was founded in 2001 as a side project made by Nupedia. Nupedia was written by experts and reviewed the traditional way. It was still free, but it wasn’t much different than a ...

Wales started Wikipedia after initially trying to build Nupedia, a peer-reviewed online encyclopedia written by experts, but the project failed because it took too long to approve edits.