--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
Overall, I think that 'Nupedia' is a much
better name than
'Wikipedia', and I sort of wish now that we had simply opened
Wikipedia under the name 'Nupedia wiki'.
Hm. Our two major defining characteristics are 1) We let anybody edit at any
time (that is, we are a wiki) and 2) we are an encyclopedia.
The "Nu" in Nupedia means next to nothing other than to be phonetically
similar to "New." A new encyclopedia. So what? GNU, however, means free as in
content freedom. Now /that/ would be a central defining characteristic of a
static distribution of Wikipedia.
-- mav