Immediately upon its creation, GNUPedia was confronted by confusion with the similar-sounding Nupedia project led by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, and controversy over whether this constituted a fork of the efforts to produce a free encyclopedia. In addition, Wales already owned the gnupedia.org domain name.[3][4] The GNUPedia project changed its name to GNE (an abbreviation for "GNE's Not an Encyclopedia", a recursive acronym similar to that of the GNU Project) and switched to a knowledgebase.[2] GNE was designed to avoid centralization and editors who enforced quality standards, which they viewed as possibly introducing bias. Jonathan Zittrain described GNE as a "collective blog" more than an encyclopedia.[5] Stallman has since lent his support to Wikipedia.[6]
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]
^ abThe Free Encyclopedia Project gnu.org ( January 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine)
^Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. New York City: Hyperion Books. p. 79. ISBN978-1-4013-0371-6. OCLC 232977686.
encyclopedia, gnupedia, redirects, here, confused, with, nupedia, originally, gnupedia, project, create, free, content, online, encyclopedia, licensed, under, free, documentation, license, under, auspices, free, software, foundation, project, proposed, richard. Gnupedia redirects here Not to be confused with Nupedia GNE originally GNUPedia was a project to create a free content online encyclopedia licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation The project was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000 1 and officially started in January 2001 It was moderated by Hector Facundo Arena an Argentine programmer and GNU activist 2 GNE screenshot in 2010 Richard Stallman raising his hands in exultation at Wikipedia during a speech on Copyright and Community at Wikimania 2005 Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksHistory EditImmediately upon its creation GNUPedia was confronted by confusion with the similar sounding Nupedia project led by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and controversy over whether this constituted a fork of the efforts to produce a free encyclopedia In addition Wales already owned the gnupedia org domain name 3 4 The GNUPedia project changed its name to GNE an abbreviation for GNE s Not an Encyclopedia a recursive acronym similar to that of the GNU Project and switched to a knowledgebase 2 GNE was designed to avoid centralization and editors who enforced quality standards which they viewed as possibly introducing bias Jonathan Zittrain described GNE as a collective blog more than an encyclopedia 5 Stallman has since lent his support to Wikipedia 6 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 Edit Internet portalList of online encyclopediasReferences Edit Stallman Richard December 18 2000 The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource Retrieved 2013 05 15 a b Reagle Joseph Michael 2010 Good Faith Collaboration The Culture of Wikipedia MIT Press pp 37 38 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 Zittrain Jonathan 2008 The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Yale University Press pp 131 133 ISBN 9780300145342 a b The Free Encyclopedia Project gnu org Archived January 5 2012 at the Wayback Machine Lih Andrew 2009 The Wikipedia Revolution How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World s Greatest Encyclopedia New York City Hyperion Books p 79 ISBN 978 1 4013 0371 6 OCLC 232977686 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to GNUpedia GNE website Archived December 17 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title GNE encyclopedia amp oldid 1070358358, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
