Nupedia

Nupedia was an online encyclopedia project founded in March 2000 by Jimmy 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 and NuNupedia
3 External links

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."

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.

NupeCode and NuNupedia

Nupecode is the software that ran 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 was the new software for Nupedia, which never did replace the original software. It is, however, implemented at its SourceForge site for testing purposes.