GNE (encyclopedia)
GNE (originally GNUPedia) was a project to create a
History
Immediately upon its creation, GNUPedia was confronted by confusion with the similar-sounding
In The Wikipedia Revolution, Andrew Lih explains the reasons behind the demise of GNE:
Richard Stallman who inspired the free software and
free culture movement also proposed his own encyclopedia in 1999 and attempted to launch it in the same year that Wikipedia took off. Called Gnupedia it coexisted confusingly in the same space as Bomis's Nupedia, a completely separate product. Keeping with tradition Stallman renamed his project GNE – GNE's not an encyclopedia. But in the end Wikipedia's lead and enthusiastic community was already well established and Richard Stallman put the GNE project into inactive status and put his support behind Wikipedia.[7]
The GNU Project offers the following explanation about GNE:
Just as we were starting a project, GNUpedia, to develop a free encyclopedia, the Nupedia encyclopedia project adopted the GNU Free Documentation License and thus became a free commercial project. So we decided to merge GNUpedia project into Nupedia. Now, the Wikipedia encyclopedia project has adopted the philosophy of Nupedia and taken it even further. We encourage you to visit and contribute to the site.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Stallman, Richard (December 18, 2000). "The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
- ^ ISBN 9780262014472.
- ^ Jimbo Wales gnupedia.org resolves to nupedia // bug-gnupedia mailing list - 21 Jan 2001 (Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Poe, Marshall (September 1, 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on January 2, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2014.)
- ISBN 9780300145342.
- ^ a b The Free Encyclopedia Project gnu.org (Archived January 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine)
- OCLC 232977686.
External links
- GNE website (Archived December 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine)