In frustration, on January 10, 2001, Wales installed a descendant of Cunningham’s original wiki software on Nupedia’s server. This “Wikipedia” was merely intended as a separate feeder service to speed up the Nupedia submissions process. Articles would be collectively written and edited on Wikipedia, then fed into the existing peer-review editing process. Almost immediately, however, Wikipedia overtook Nupedia not just in the quantity of articles that were created, but in the quality as well. The first article created, on January 15, was on the letter “U” and investigated the origins and usage
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