GNE (encyclopedia)

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GNE screenshot in 2010
Richard Stallman raising his hands in exultation at Wikipedia during a speech on Copyright and Community at Wikimania (2005)

GNE (originally GNUPedia) was a project to create a free-content online encyclopedia, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation. The project was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000[1] and officially started in January 2001. It was moderated by Héctor Facundo Arena, an Argentine programmer and GNU activist.[2]

  1. ^ Stallman, Richard (December 18, 2000). "The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  2. ^ Reagle, Joseph Michael (2010). Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. MIT Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 9780262014472.