Nupedia is an English language online encyclopedia originally founded by the Wikimedia Foundation yet was then revived by a member of wikia to rival Wikipedia. The original Nupedia lasted from March 2000 until September 2003. It is mainly known now as the predecessor of Wikipedia, but Nupedia had a seven-step approval process to control content of articles before being posted, rather than live wiki-based updating. The original Nupedia had only 21 articles in the first year while Wikipedia had 200 articles in the first month, and 18,000 in the first year.