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Lawrence Mark Sanger (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər /; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, an online encyclopedia, and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales.
In 2001, the license for Nupedia was changed to GFDL, and Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia as a complementary project, using an online wiki as a collaborative drafting tool.
On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales launched Wikipedia, a free open-content encyclopedia that enjoyed rapid growth and popularity. As its public profile grew, Wales became its promoter and spokesman.
Mar 19, 2013 · Founding Wikipedia in 2001 (along with Larry Sanger, by most accounts other than Wales’), Wales understood the web’s egalitarian underpinning and the open source method’s ability to spur...
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Jan 15, 2016 · The free site was launched on Jan. 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. It was meant as a place where anyone with knowledge of a topic could write it up and make it available to the world,...
Jan 13, 2021 · Larry Sanger: I came up with the name “Wikipedia,” a silly name for what was at first a very silly project, and the newly independent project was launched at Wikipedia.com on January 15, 2001....
Jan 15, 2021 · Pina Schipani. Jan 15, 2021. Listen In English. Listen in Arabic. Powered by automated translation. "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing," co-founder Jimmy Wales said in 2004, when asked by a user what Wikipedia's mission was.
