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Lawrence Mark Sanger ( / ˈsæŋər / ⓘ; [1] 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.
Jun 30, 2021 · Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever. June 30, 2021. Some animals are more equal than others. “All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia,” declares a policy page, “must be written from a neutral point of view ( NPOV ).”. This is essential policy, believe it or not.
Lawrence Mark Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American internet project developer. He worked with Jimmy Wales to create the online encyclopedias, Nupedia and Wikipedia before he created his own online encyclopedias Digital Universe and Citizendium.
Sanger formulated foundational Wikipedia policies like the "neutral point of view" and came up with its memorable name. As its first editor-in-chief, he nurtured the nascent community and helped bootstrap the site to over 20,000 articles by the end of 2001.
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has been critical of Wikipedia since he was laid off as the only editorial employee and departed from the project in 2002.
The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy PhD who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp.
Apr 18, 2005 · Larry Sanger was one of the moving forces behind the pioneering Nupedia project. That makes him one of the people to thank for Wikipedia, which has been enjoying more and more visibility of late.
Feb 8, 2024 · 1. Online information is carefully managed Wikipedia is just one encyclopedia, a ridiculously biased one. The collection of all the encyclopedias—that is what I mean by “the encyclosphere”—is more wide-ranging, fairer, and much larger.
There are two co-founders of Wikipedia : Larry Sanger (born 1968), American internet project developer. Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur.
March 2002: Erik Moeller, now a WikiMedia Board member, wrote in Kuro5hin , " Larry Sanger played a crucial role in the first year of Wikipedia and has helped establish a shared philosophy for its users. ... This may well be the right time to abandon the concept of 'editorship' altogether...
