Nupedia

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Nupedia was a website launched on March 9, 2000[1]. It operated as an online encyclopedia platform during its active period. The project was established with the goal of creating a freely accessible knowledge base. Its founding date marked the beginning of its development and public availability[1].

Nupedia

Summary

Nupedia is a website[1]. Nupedia ranks in the top 4% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (315 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nupedia authored Larry Sanger[3].
  • Nupedia authored Jimmy Wales[4].
  • Nupedia is the creator of Jimmy Wales[5].
  • Nupedia's image is recorded as Nupedia 20030808 screenshot.png[6].
  • Nupedia's instance of is recorded as website[7].
  • Nupedia's instance of is recorded as online encyclopedia[8].
  • Nupedia's founder is recorded as Jimmy Wales[9].
  • Nupedia's founder is recorded as Larry Sanger[10].
  • Nupedia's owned by is recorded as Bomis[11].
  • Nupedia's logo image is recorded as Nupedia.svg[12].
  • Nupedia's followed by is recorded as Wikipedia[13].
  • Nupedia's Commons category is recorded as Nupedia[14].
  • Nupedia's language of work or name is recorded as English[15].
  • Nupedia's language of work or name is recorded as German[16].
  • Nupedia's language of work or name is recorded as Spanish[17].
  • Nupedia's language of work or name is recorded as French[18].
  • Nupedia's language of work or name is recorded as Italian[19].
  • Nupedia's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q9288 (heb)-Uziel302-נופדיה.wav[20].
  • +2000-03-09T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Nupedia[21].
  • Nupedia was dissolved in +2003-09-26T00:00:00Z[22].
  • Nupedia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/059c8[23].
  • Nupedia's official website is recorded as http://nupedia.com[24].
  • Nupedia's product or material produced is recorded as online encyclopedia[25].
  • Nupedia's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Nupedia[26].
  • Nupedia's motto text is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'the open content encyclopedia'}[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Jimmy Wales[9] and Larry Sanger[10]. +2000-03-09T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Nupedia[21].

Identity

Nupedia's followed by is recorded as Wikipedia[13].

Ownership

Nupedia's owned by is recorded as Bomis[11]. Nupedia's product or material produced is recorded as online encyclopedia[25].

Dissolution

Nupedia was dissolved in +2003-09-26T00:00:00Z[22].

Why It Matters

Nupedia ranks in the top 4% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (315 views/month).[2] Nupedia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] . wikidata.org.
  11. [5] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . vator.tv. vator.tv. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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