Nupedia

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Nupedia was an online encyclopedia project founded in March 2000 by Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger. Its articles were licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and were peer reviewed by experts. As of June 2003, it had 23 "complete" articles and 68 more in progress. Nupedia shut down on September 26, 2003, and much of its content has since been assimilated by Wikipedia.

Table of contents

1 The Editorial Process 2 NupeCode 3 NuNupedia 4 External links

The Editorial Process

Nupedia had a seven step editorial process, consisting of:

1. Assignment
2. Finding a lead reviewer
3. Lead review
4. Open review
5. Lead copyediting
6. Open copyediting
7. 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." Nupedia was powered by: NupeCode collaborative software. A new version of the Nupedia code was being developed (and in trial use at a different website), dubbed NuNupedia. Nunupedia on sourceforge.net Periodically there was talk on the Wikipedia mailing list about the possibility of transforming Nupedia into a stable distribution of selected Wikipedia content.

See also: Nupedia and Wikipedia

NupeCode

Nupecode is the software that runs the Nupedia project. It is open source (released under the GNU General Public License) and is designed for large peer review projects. The code is available via Nupedia's CVS repository.

NuNupedia

NuNupedia is the new software for Nupedia, not yet replacing the original software. It is, however, implemented at its SourceForge site for testing purposes.

External links

• Nupedia (Offline since September 26, 2003 — archive.org version)
• NuNupedia website
• NuNupedia test site
• NuNupedia's SourceForge project page

• http://www.nupedia.com/cvs.html -- Nupedia CVS instructions
• http://www.nupedia.com/cvs/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ -- Nupedia CVS repository
• http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/tools-l -- The Nupedia tools mailing list page