Interpedia Explained

Interpedia
Type:	Online encyclopedia
Author:	Rick Gates

Interpedia was one of the first-proposed online encyclopedia 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.^[1] That message included the following musings:

In November 1993, discussions moved to a dedicated mailing list,^[2] supplemented later by Usenet newsgroup .^{[3] [4]}

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.^[5]

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.^[6]

See also

• Online encyclopedia
• List of online encyclopedias

Further reading

• Book: Reagle, Joseph Michael. . 2010. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 978-0-262-01447-2. 32–34. Interpedia.

External links

• Interpedia's disclaimer by John Hunt
• Web site: Boldt . Axel . Charter Directory > Interpedia - comp.infosystems.interpedia . NewsDemon.com . Univ of California, Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics . This is a Request for Discussion (RFD) about the creation of a new newsgroup for discussion of the proposed Internet Encyclopedia, or Interpedia, which may begin by adding new textual reference material to the Internet and may become a general interface to all Internet services and all information available on the Internet, based on an encyclopedia metaphor..

Notes and References

1. https://archive.today/20120628204704/http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9310d&L=pacs-l&T=0&P=1418 PACS-L Listserv message "The Internet Encyclopedia", Oct 25, 1993
2. http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9311C&L=PACS-L&P=R2797&I=-3 PACS-L Listserv message "Internet Encyclopedia (Interpedia) group project and mailing list", Nov 17, 1993
3. Web site: RFD: comp.infosystems.interpedia . 2003-01-26 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20011106225801/http://www.landfield.com/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/comp.infosystems.interpedia . November 6, 2001 .
4. https://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.interpedia/browse_thread/thread/a0adc2203f87191c/e92420e978d2c3a0?lnk=st Interpedia FAQ
5. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.interpedia/6hzoH_WQdPs Interpedia FAQ 15-MAR-94
6. Joseph Reagle: Wikipedia's heritage: vision, pragmatics, and happenstance — section 3.2, Interpedia