Before founding Wikipedia Jimmy Wales had another encyclopaedic project called “Nupedia”. It failed miserably. Eight months after going online in March 2000, only two full-length entries had been published. The Nupedia experience is now a source of hope for Wales as he works to save his latest venture “WikiTribune”, a year-old website that is trying - but has so far not managed - to crowdsource the news.
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