Daniel R. Tobias<dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:31:24 -0700, stevertigo
wrote:
{{fact}}... WHOIS shows that
interpedia.org was
regisgtered 16-Jan-
2005, and
webpedia.org on 20-Jul-2004, which are both after Wikipedia
was founded in 2001.
So I was wrong about those domain names being taken, unless there were
previous lessors not shown on the history. But note that I used the
dots (...) to indicate these as variables just so noone would get any
ideas about specific particular domains.
"Wiki" was a very important part of the name, I doubt anything like
interpedia or webpedia were considered since they would fit Nupedia
better. Wikipedia was never intended to be an online encyclopaedia in
its own right, it was intended as a feeder project for Nupedia. It was
well after the name was chosen that it was realised Wikipedia was a
great idea on its own in isolation of Nupedia.