An kafa shi a ranar 9 ga Maris, 2000, a ƙarƙashin ikon mallakar Bomis, kamfanin tashar yanar gizo. Manyan mutanenta sune Shugaba na Bomis Jimmy Wales da Larry Sanger, babban edita na Nupedia kuma daga baya Wikipedia. Nupedia an fara lasisi ne a ƙarƙashin lasisin mallakar Nupedia Open Content License, amma tun kafin a kafa Wikipedia, Nupedia ya canza zuwa GNU Free Documentation a kan roƙon Richard Stallman. An ba wa Wales damar ayyana maƙasudin yin kundin sani na jama'a, yayin da aka ba Sanger da dabarar wiki don isa ga wannan burin.
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