Interpedia was one of the first-proposed
online encyclopedias which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalogue of all Interpedia pages.
History
Interpedia was initiated by
Rick Gates, who posted a message titled "The Internet Encyclopedia" on October 25, 1993 to the PACS-L (Public-Access Computer Systems Forum)
Listserv. That message included the following musings:
In November 1993, discussions moved to a dedicated
mailing list
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, supplemented later by
Usenet newsgroup .
Several independent "Seal-of-approval" (SOAP) agencies were envisioned which would rate Interpedia articles based on criteria of their own choosing; users could then decide which agencies' recommendations to follow.
The project was actively discussed for around half a year, but never left the planning stages, perhaps partly due to the unprecedented growth of the
World Wide Web
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.
[Joseph Reagle]
Wikipedia's heritage: vision, pragmatics, and happenstance
— section 3.2, ''Interpedia''
See also
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Online encyclopedia
An online encyclopedia, also called an Internet encyclopedia, is a digital encyclopedia accessible through the Internet. Some examples include pre-World Wide Web services that offered the '' Academic American Encyclopedia'' beginning in 1980, Enc ...
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List of online encyclopedias
References
Further reading
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External links
Interpedia's disclaimerby John Hunt
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American online encyclopedias
Internet properties established in 1993