Nupedia

English

Etymology

Possibly from GNU, +‎ -pedia (“encyclopedia”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌnuːˈpiːdi.ə/, /ˈnuːˌpiːdi.ə/

Proper noun

Nupedia

  1. An expert-written, free-content online encyclopedia operating from 2000 to 2003; parent project of Wikipedia.

References

  1. ^ “Nupedia (Wikipedia predecessor), 2000”, in University of Washington Information School‎[1], 9 November 2015, archived from the original on 25 April 2018:
    N-E-W-pedia is an obvious mishearing even though that’s not how it was named, we’ll get to that shortly. […] This particular pedia emerged from the early, heady days of the web as well as the open-source movement, dedicated to fostering freely-shared software and other intellectual works, including the GNU operating system, G-N-U, which Nupedia might have been sort of named after.
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