[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikis and uniformity

[sgilbert at nbnet.nb.ca]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

> sgilbert at 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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