Nupedia

English Etymology Possibly from en GNU, en pedia<t:encyclopedia>.Nupedia (Wikipedia predecessor), 2000 w:University of Washington Information School https://web.archive.org/web/20180425182327/https://ischool.uw.edu/podcasts/dtctw/nupedia-wikipedia-predecessor 9 November 2015 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. Pronunciation en /ˌnuːˈpiːdi.ə/ /ˈnuːˌpiːdi.ə/ US Proper noun An expert-written, free-content online encyclopedia operating from 2000 to 2003; parent project of Wikipedia. References