Available in | English, French, Spanish, Italian, German |
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Owner | Bomis |
Created by | Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger |
Website | www.nupedia.com at the Wayback Machine (archived February 15, 2003) www.nupedia.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 April 2000) |
Launched | 9 March 2000 |
Current status | Defunct since 26 September 2003; succeeded by Wikipedia |
Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia. Its articles were written by volunteers and checked by experts. They were licensed as open content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Nupedia was online from March 2000 until September 2003. It is mostly known as the website which came before Wikipedia.