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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.
Mar 27, 2024 · Behind this world-changing movement was Jimmy Wales, an unassuming genius who built online communities to empower ordinary people. Let‘s examine his background, achievements, personal life and the evolution of his radical vision.
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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) (Jimbo Wales as a user of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects), is a British-American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia).
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.
- Ted Greenwald
The trouble was that in 2000 he hired Larry Sanger, an academic and proselyte of an open-source Internet, to help him start his online encyclopedia.
In 2000, he left academia to join entrepreneur Jimmy Wales‘ startup Bomis as editor-in-chief of Nupedia – aspiring to be the world‘s first free online encyclopedia written and edited entirely by experts. However, as Sanger quickly realized, Nupedia‘s highly rigorous seven-step review process led to glacial growth.
Oct 17, 2023 · In the early 2000s, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger shared a common dream — a dream of a world where knowledge was not confined to the pages of expensive encyclopedias or the halls of prestigious...
