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Before starting a small project called Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales failed over and over again. Three times he failed to start successful ...

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NuclearWarfare

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Then he tried an online encyclopedia called Newpedia, a free encyclopedia created by paid experts. He spent $250,000 for writers to make 12 articles. It failed.

Newpedia, huh?

This is like a news story crying out for "copy and paste from Wikipedia". Or at least check it, or some other source. And they didn't even do that. Sad.

thekohser

Mods, can we merge this discussion with the other thread that discussed "Newpedia"?

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