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Nupedia

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Summary

Nupedia is a website[1]. Nupedia ranks in the top 4% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,508 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Larry Sanger[3], Jimmy Wales[4]
  • Creator: Jimmy Wales[5]
  • Instance of: online encyclopedia[6]
  • Founder: Jimmy Wales[7], Larry Sanger[8]
  • Owned by: Bomis[9]
  • Followed by: Wikipedia[10]
  • Commons category: Nupedia[11]
  • Language of work or name: English[12], German[13], Spanish[14], French[15], Italian[16]
  • Software engine: NupeCode[17]
  • Inception: March 9, 2001[18]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: September 26, 2003[19]
  • Official website: http://nupedia.com[20]
  • Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[21]
  • Motto text: the open content encyclopedia[22], the free encyclopedia[23], Свободная энциклопедия[24], Suppose scholars the world over were to learn of a serious online encyclopedia effort in which the results were not proprietary to the encyclopedists, but were freely distributable under an open content license in virtually any desired medium. How quickly would the encyclopedia grow?[25]
  • Title: Nupedia[26]
  • Funder: Bomis[27]

Why It Matters

Nupedia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Nupedia is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Bomis Jimmy Wales Larry Sanger website Wikipedia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · ~2026-49579-65 · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +2001-03-09T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Inception: 9 March 2001"
  2. 12w ago · Mxn · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Motto text → the open content encyclopedia, the free encyclopedia, Свободная энциклопедия +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Motto text: Suppose scholars the world over were to learn of a serious online encyclopedia effort in which the results were not proprietary to the encyclopedists, "
  3. 17w ago · Nintendofan885 · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Creator → Jimmy Wales
    Freebase id → —
    Language of work or name → English, German, Spanish +2
    Image → Nupedia 20030808 screenshot.png
    + 46 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Software engine: NupeCode"
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