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Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium.

He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he was interested in philosophy. Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. Most of his philosophical work has focused on epistemology, the theory of knowledge.He has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects. He is the former editor-in-chief of Nupedia,

chief organizer of its successor, Wikipedia, and founding editor-in-chief of Citizendium. From his position at Nupedia, he assembled the process for article development. Sanger proposed implementing a wiki, which led directly to the creation of Wikipedia. Initially Wikipedia was a complementary project for Nupedia. He was Wikipedia's early community leader and established many of its original policies.Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, and has since been critical of the project. He states that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility due to, among other things, a lack of respect for expertise. In October 2006, Sanger started a somewhat similar encyclopedia to Wikipedia, Citizendium. In December 2017, it was announced that Sanger had joined Everipedia as chief information officer.Sanger has taught philosophy at Ohio State University and was an early strategist for the expert-authored Encyclopedia of Earth. He has worked on developing educational projects for individuals behind WatchKnowLearn. He has designed a web-based reading program named Reading Bear, which aims to teach children how to read. In February 2013, he attempted to start a news crowdsourcing project named Infobitt; it ran out of money in mid-2015 without the code being ready to handle a full-scale launch.

✵ 16. July 1968
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Famous Larry Sanger Quotes

“I thought that the evidence against your claims about me would shame you into changing your behavior. But, five years since you started misrepresenting my role in the founding of Wikipedia, you’re still at it.”

Larry Sanger

"An open letter to Jimmy Wales" Citizendium.org (8 April 2009) http://blog.citizendium.org/2009/04/08/an-open-letter-to-jimmy-wales-copy/.

“Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.”

Larry Sanger

Source: As quoted in Jewish Chronicle (26 October 2006).

“If the project was lucky enough to have a writer or two well-informed about some specialized subject, and if their work was not degraded in quality by the majority of people, whose knowledge of the subject is based on paragraphs in books and mere mentions in college classes, then there might be a good, credible article on that specialized subject. Otherwise, there will be no article at all, a very amateurish-sounding article, or an article that looks like it might once have been pretty good, but which has been hacked to bits by hoi polloi.”

Larry Sanger

"Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin (31 December 2004).

“Suppose that, as is perfectly possible, Wikipedia continues producing articles at a rate of 1,000 per month. In seven years, it would have 84,000 articles.”

Larry Sanger

"Britannica or Nupedia? The Future of Free Encyclopedias" at kuro5hin (25 July 2001) https://web.archive.org/web/20010814102033/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/7/25/103136/121

“Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh,;-)”

Larry Sanger

"A passel of recent mentions" at Citizendium.org (1 May 2008) http://blog.citizendium.org/2008/05/01/a-passel-of-recent-mentions/.

“I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.”

Larry Sanger

"Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin (31 December 2004) http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25.

“Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).”

Larry Sanger

"Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin (31 December 2004).

“A few of the project's participants can be, not to put a nice word on it, pretty nasty. And this is tolerated.”

Larry Sanger

"Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin (31 December 2004).

“Banning Fox News as a source is just good sense, says Wikipedia.”

Larry Sanger

Source: ” Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever”, blog post, 2021 https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever/

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