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While moderating an online discussion group devoted to the philosophy of Objectivism in the early 1990s, Wales had encountered Larry Sanger, a skeptic of the philosophy. [9]
Mar 19, 2013 · Gets caught editing his own Wikipedia bio to remove mentions of Larry Sanger as cofounder, as well as references to “soft-core pornography” on Bomis. He says he is correcting errors but also ...
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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.
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The idea of letting anyone (and not just experts) oversee the encyclopedia entries was Wales’s idea, but Sanger has said he talked a skeptical Wales into using wiki technology and came up...
Apr 28, 2024 · Frustrated by the slow progress of this project, Wales and Nupedia ’s editor in chief, Larry Sanger, in 2001 turned to a new technology, a type of software called wiki, to create Wikipedia, a companion encyclopaedia site that anyone could contribute to and edit.
[7] [8] Although Wales founded Wikipedia together with Larry Sanger, there is only one Founder's seat on the board. [9] The creation of the founder seat position came among controversies over the appropriate representation of volunteers and chapters within the WMF governance.
Jul 9, 2012 · News Desk. Updated July 10 | When Wikipedia formally launched on Jan. 15, 2001, creators Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger hoped to create over 100,000 articles. Today, Wikipedia has more than...
