[WikiEN-l] Ideas on a methodology

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at 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