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Lawrence Mark Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is the co-founder of Wikipedia. He left Wikipedia in 2002 after becoming critical of the project and has founded or worked for other online organisations.
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I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.
Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is so ironic. We wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, but what emerged was one of the most effective organs of Establishment propaganda in history.
It's harder to find a page where there *isn't* some glaringly obvious bias.
A few of the project's participants can be, not to put a nice word on it, pretty nasty. And this is tolerated.
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.
Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)
People are being blocked—in other words, disciplined—and yet there is no respect for certain expectations that any other serious disciplinary procedure would be held to
The best thing we can do basically is to supply alternatives and make them better and better and better.
Opindia interview (2020)
I like and admire Larry very much. I actually think his role in the early days of Wikipedia is under-appreciated.
The hard question, I guess, is why we are reinventing the wheel, when Project Gutenberg already exists? We'd want to complement Project Gutenberg--how, exactly?
There was no due process, no prosecutor, no dispassionate judge, no jury, no interpretation of law.
They are constantly trying to gauge what other people think, and this is the way ultimately these people are able to influence each other
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.
[Wikipedia is]one of the most effective organs of Establishment propaganda in history.
We wouldn't call it "the Nupedia wiki" though that's what it would be. ... On the "wikipedia" we would say that this is a supplementary project to Nupedia which operates entirely independently.
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).
The story of what happened to me is, in many ways, the story of our censorious times, in which independent thinking is seen as a threat rather than a virtue, and punished as such
I have learned that the people probably angriest at Wikipedia are Hindus... I am happy to point out the obvious, namely, that Wikipedia is biased... What you *would* accomplish, however, is to persuasively expose the anti-Hindu bias on Wikipedia.
Wikipedians [...] act as de facto topic moderators, they often end up being biased and frequently quirky. ... Articles are often edited with the sensibility of adolescent too-clever-by-half males[, which] describes a lot of Wikipedians.
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