Nupedia was an English-language Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia lasted from March 2000 until September 2003, and's mostly known now as the predecessor of the free wiki encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia wasn't a wiki; it was instead characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a q… (More on Nupedia)