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I believe that there is way too much bias towards the old Nupedia, while up until recently there was information on it. Perhaps it would be better if we stopped refering to it as 'Defunct' and started to include some information on the wikian update. Or at least put in a section about it. It does seem slightly fishy when you see that Wikipedia son't mention their competing site, but call it defunct. Don't get me wrong, I'm trying to be civil, but this issue needs addressing. Mistoop (talk)
Excuse me, but there has still been no reply to this post, despite me waiting a considerable amount of time. Mistoop (talk)
I tried to remove one element of bias writing, it was reverted. Apparently someone wants it to remain. It seems to me that comparisons of this kind should be avoided, they read like adverts or reviews. Caldwelljt (Caldwelljt)
I've maked a new Nupedia. Unlike the original, this one is a wiki. Just try it here: nupedia.wikia.com/wiki/ If you want to make a Wiki, try Wikia:Special:CreateWiki. We on Nupedia hope to make over 20 000 articles. Bad News Live 1982-87 (talk) 11:35, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Nupedia is a failure. Since Jan 2001, 10 (ten) new articles appeared, 9 of them being `brief versions', and one `medium-lenght'.
Policy says that you have to be PhD to contribute, but maybe, as an exception, they'll allow you to write even though you aren't PhD. How many contributors do they expect ?
We should forget about Nupedia and add some quality assurance features to Wikipedia. It's much better to have 50k good articles and 50k reasonable-quality ones instead of 1k excelent articles.
It's just another Cathedral vs. Bazaar issue. -- Taw
The reason Nupedia is having trouble right now is that we've had trouble convincing academics that it is indeed a bona fide cathedral. If we were to convince them of that--which I think we will, eventually--you'll see just how wrong you really are (that Nupedia is a failure).
I am 100% opposed to adding "quality assurance features" to Wikipedia that involve making it harder for people to edit articles. Wikipedia's freedom is its quality assurance. --LMS
I agree that calling Nupedia a "failure" at this point in the game is incredibly short-sighted. It's actually quite remarkable what it has already accomplished, and it gives every indication that it will accomplish much more. The existence of Wikipedia and the Chalkboard will help a lot; I think one more thing that would help a lot is to drop the focus on short articles--it's much easier for authors to produce longer articles, and they will get more reward out of doing so. Shortening them can (and should) be done by proficient editors with expert consultation, not by the authors themselves. --LDC
one thing to check when counting nupedia articles is the "in progress" bin - I think there were more than 50 in there when I counted the other day. Speed-to-completion is an issue, but it looks like it's moving rather than standing still --MichaelTinkler
Maybe Chalkboard will change things, but if Nupedia were going to continue to work the way it's working now, it would fail. Examples of QA features that can be added now to wiki:
Wikipedia freedom is the most important QA, but it needs some help to scale up. Most important problem now is that if someone screws existing article on niche subject, chances are high that nobody will even notice for a long time. --Taw
dave 17:51, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I feel the same that we judge quality of articles that we're knowledgable about
thinking that in other areas is the same.
As for Nupedia, maybe they are just waiting for us to finish ;-)
Kpjas
This article has a lot of basic information missing:
Fuzheado 09:49, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
So when do we start changing all the verbs to past tense? Anthony DiPierro 14:54, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Nupedia is a former version of Wikipedia that became offline about a year ago. Any stories about Wikipedia?? I hope Wikipedia never becomes offline. Any time in history when it almost did?? 66.32.255.74 17:33, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a redirect to Wikipedia from the old Nupedia URL on the web? Unless of course there are bigger issues, but right now it is link rot. Spalding 16:59, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
WHY DID MY QUESTION GET DELETED! what are squids?81.108.233.59 (talk) 09:41, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Um, what happened to Nupedia? Why has it gone down? I just heard about it a few days ago, and was wondering why it's disappeared now.
I got an email saying that the Nupedia website is now available at a new URL: http://nupedia.8media.org/
So in the span of three years, only 24 articles had been completed? I'm surprised Nupedia didn't die out or quit within the first year. Is there a list of articles that had been assimilated into Wikipedia but orginated from Nupedia?
Nupedia's limited content was assimilated into Wikipedia. Resistance is futile.13:33, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
24 articles in 3 years. That's one article in a month and a half. In the same time, Wikipedia gets almost 150 thousand articles. JIP | Talk 12:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
"Much of the missing functionality had been mocked using underlined blocks of text that appeared to be hyperlinks, but actually were not."
There were no hyperlinks so the editors pretended there were? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.178.103.102 (talk • contribs) 03:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC).
Is there a good reason for half of this article to be taken up by a copy-and-paste of the WHOIS data for the Nupedia.com domain? I removed it, but it seems to have been put back. I don't see the need for it, especially not in an encyclopedia article. The only things it gives you that aren't in the article already are the contact details for Bomis and Register.com, the names of Register.com's DNS servers, and when the registration expires, none of which should be in an article on Nupedia – Qxz 00:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
For the sake of those who are curious (such as myself) is there any objection to mentioning what the 24 Nupedia articles were? I think it's pretty interesting. In fact, from what I can tell, I'd consider it almost humorous just how esoteric those 2 dozen were. Also, from looking at the list on Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia, I count more than 24. Is there a mistake somewhere? -R. fiend 03:32, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
In paragraph three of the history section, second sentence, "Due to the collapse of the internet economy at that time, Jimbo Wales decided to discontinue funding for a salaried editor-in-chief in December 2001[1], and Sanger resigned from both projects soon thereafter." I noticed the use of Jimbo, instead of Jimmy, whereas the previous and subsequent references were both to his proper name, Jimmy. I began reviewing the history, to see if this had been changed, and not noticed, to find that the previous reference was to Bomis. Can someone help verify whose name actually belongs there? Tzalumen 05:18, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
It is not clear to me, based on the definition of "wiki" is Nupedia was a wiki or not. What would Ward Cunningham say? How should we state this now? -- 75.24.214.113 05:03, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
“ | Nupedia was not a publicly editable wiki | ” |
. Then, could this be changed to "Nupedia was not based on wiki technology at all" or something like that? I am here because a friend of mine had the same confusion after reading the above sentence. It is not clear whether Nupedia used wiki technology where pages are editable only by trusted users. (like in wikimediafoundation.org) --Jacob.jose (talk) 13:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I've removed:
From the article as I had some significant concerns with it as written. My major concern is the it was unsourced, and that as I had reason to question several key claims in the piece, I'm inclined to suggest that it desperately needs them. :) I'll see if I can dig up some sources, and I'll add it back if I can, but for the moment I felt it was better left out. - Bilby (talk) 03:16, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Nupedia is now an important historical phenomenon. Nupedia site's build/improvement may not be urgent, but merits a detailed description and assessment of the historical chronology and outcomes of initial and iterative visions. As a teaching tool, this site has the potential to teach students about how Wikipedia came to exist. KSRolph (talk) 01:23, 1 September 2011 (UTC) 01:18, 01 Sep 2011 (UTC)
Would Wikipedia's featured article process be considered the spiritual successor of Nupedia? For example, consider how Wales and Sanger originally envisioned Wikipedia as a drawing board for Nupedia articles. But now instead of going through Nupedia review, they go through ⊕ and then ★ review. So if Nupedia were still alive and kicking today, would it have 6475 articles that look a lot like those listed at Portal:Featured content? Or is there a big, documented difference between how the featured article process works and how Nupedia's review was supposed to work? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 01:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
I looked up nupedia on google, and this was one of the websites that came up. It turns out this is a new Nupedia! Unfortunately, it said it was just a test site. nunupedia.sourceforge.net --TZLNCTV (talk) 21:44, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
There were 25 ARTICLES total. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:748:B000:8:225:90FF:FE56:1830 (talk) 12:00, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
I've found 2 similar images on Commons, but which of them is a real Nupedia logo? --Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 11:37, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Why Wikipedia comparing to Nupedia is so overwhelmingly overbloated with its rules? Nupedia rule is simpler. As long as you do not gibberish and do not adulterish, as long it's fine. 2602:FFE8:200:0:0:0:410D:9DF8 (talk) 16:22, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, who's Craig 2013, p. 84/Ayers 2008/Myers 2006, p. 163 ? We don't have bibliography for this references. -- BahYajé e Y4guarEtã (talk) 20:37, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
HI User:Bilby you revert me with the argument «good faith change, but source is clear that it was to be volunteer built ». For me the problem is the no good faith of Wales when he was pretended this, as neither when he pretended that he never had no direct knowledge of Stallman’s essay. This information is in complete contradiction with many other sources that say that Nupedia was a pay expert built encyclopedia. And that precisely why it doesn't work and was abandoned for the profit of Wikipedia. The author of The Hive says something wrong and Wikipedia don't existe to repet what's wrong on litterature. Don't you think ? Are you ok if I had « Jimmy wale pretended that » in the concerned sentence ? Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 08:23, 30 October 2021 (UTC)