New subject: Terrible new design

4 Jul 2003

--- Jimmy Wales &lt;jwales(a)bomis.com&gt; wrote:
...
  Overall, I think that 'Nupedia' is a much
better name than
 'Wikipedia', and I sort of wish now that we had simply opened
 Wikipedia under the name 'Nupedia wiki'. 
Hm. Our two major defining characteristics are 1) We let anybody edit at any 
time (that is, we are a wiki) and 2) we are an encyclopedia. 

The "Nu" in Nupedia means next to nothing other than to be phonetically 
similar to "New." A new encyclopedia. So what? GNU, however, means free as in 
content freedom. Now /that/ would be a central defining characteristic of a 
static distribution of Wikipedia.  

-- mav

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