From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com
Larry Sanger wrote:
It should not go under the name nupedia, nor should it go under the name wikipedia, but something else. According to network solutions metapedia.com is owned, but metapedia.org and metapedia.net are available. Hyperpedia.org is also a good name and available.
We clearly need Jimbo to reply on this point. I've got a few name ideas myself.
I have no opinion at the present time. I am intending to revive Nupedia in the near future, in some fashion, and I am thinking very much along the lines of what is being discussed here. Therefore, I think that Nupedia might be the right vehicle for this in the first place.
Then here's what I propose. Magnus, Lee, and I (and anyone else who wants to, I guess!) will hammer out a test version of the software.
We'll set up a mailing list for the project, in which the new project's policy (and name), etc., will be discussed. I'll announce the mailing list on Wikipedia-l, Nupedia-l, and Advisory-l.
From: Gareth Owen wiki@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk
Larry Sanger lsanger@seeatown.com writes:
I remember that several Nupedia editors and reviewers came out very strongly against having any association with Wikipedia, and at least one (or was it two?) of them threatened to quit
Given the amount of progress they've made on Nupedia, how would we tell?
FYI, the reasons for the scant progress are (1) the editorial process was complicated. That doesn't mean that we couldn't make progress in the future with a simpler system and that someone who has put in hours of work on Nupedia wouldn't be missed in the future. And (2) the whole process was top-down, and once it became clear that I had been more or less reassigned to Wikipedia, all but a few just stopped working. Again, that doesn't mean they're not there and waiting, and that they wouldn't be missed in the future if they quit now.
A lot of people are unjustly critical of Nupedia when they don't realize that it was *always* a project in development, that we were generally quite open to adjustments to make the project better--and just when we were making a move to simplify the project, with everybody's blessing, money ran out, and no one volunteered for the full-time unpaid job of leading the newly-reorganized project. So don't blame Nupedia for its stasis. Blame the bursting of the Internet bubble, if you want to blame anything!
Larry
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