--- Jimmy Wales jwales@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