[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 73, Issue 110

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/29 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
> Daniel R. Tobias<dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:31:24 -0700, stevertigo wrote:
>
>> {{fact}}... WHOIS shows that interpedia.org was regisgtered 16-Jan-
>> 2005, and webpedia.org on 20-Jul-2004, which are both after Wikipedia
>> was founded in 2001.
>
> So I was wrong about those domain names being taken, unless there were
> previous lessors not shown on the history. But note that I used the
> dots (...) to indicate these as variables just so noone would get any
> ideas about specific particular domains.

"Wiki" was a very important part of the name, I doubt anything like
interpedia or webpedia were considered since they would fit Nupedia
better. Wikipedia was never intended to be an online encyclopaedia in
its own right, it was intended as a feeder project for Nupedia. It was
well after the name was chosen that it was realised Wikipedia was a
great idea on its own in isolation of Nupedia.