Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia

[Seth Nickell]

I was wondering what was going on here... I have been impressed with the
quality of Nupedia articles and was surprised that the projects hadn't
made a joint announcement.

-Seth

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 
> I would like everyone here to please investigate
> http://www.nupedia.com/
> 
> We have been in existence for a year now, and we have
> over 2500 contributors already organized into peer review
> groups, with editorial support in place, etc.  The energy
> of the project continues to grow.  WE WANT YOUR HELP.  :-)
> 
> Richard Stallman has been aware of us for awhile now, and
> within the past two weeks he offered to me that we (Nupedia
> and Richard Stallman) could do a joint announcement of Nupedia's
> switch from our own (home-grown) license to Gnu's GFDL.
> 
> Instead, he chose to announce a new, and totally unrelated project.  I
> do not know why.  Some (on slashdot) have speculated in a negative way
> about Richard, but I have the utmost respect for him and believe that
> there must be some reasonable explanation for this.
> 
> I have invited Hector Arena to join our project, and I really hope
> that all of the effort here will be focussed toward the existing
> project, rather than forking for no reason at all.
> 
> --Jimbo
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