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Larry Sanger. 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. He coined Wikipedia's name, and wrote many of its early guidelines, including the ...
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).
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. Sanger and Wales parted company in 2002, but they continued to dispute who first ...
Mar 19, 2013 · Jimmy Wales and his crowdsourced compendium of all the world’s knowledge. ... Founding Wikipedia in 2001 (along with Larry Sanger, by most accounts other than Wales’), Wales understood the web ...
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.
Mar 27, 2024 · Launching Nupedia.com in 2000 with Larry Sanger as Editor-in-Chief, this passion project sought to emulate traditional encyclopedias in prestige and accuracy but updated constantly. Its complex seven step review process ensured high quality, vetted by experts with PhDs. However Nupedia‘s sluggish progress disappointed Wales.
Sep 1, 2006 · Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger knew all this when they began an online encyclopedia in 1999. Now, just seven years later, everyone knows different. Now, just seven years later, everyone knows different.
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