Jimmy Wales wrote:
sgilbert(a)nbnet.nb.ca wrote:
I believe Nupedia (Wikipedia's parent
encyclopedia project) used
XML markup. That project had a division of labour between writers
and editors: the former simply wrote the articles, while the latter did
all the fancy markup.
And it worked well enough to generate 12 articles in 18 months, at an
exorbitant cost to me. :-(
Don't be sad, Jimbo. Without Nupedia, there would be no
Wikipedia, so you got over 140,000 articles and counting for your
cash. Of course, they aren't all good, but surely there's more than
12. :)
Stephen G.
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