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Signature. Lawrence Mark Sanger ( / ˈsæŋər / ⓘ; [1] born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name, and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies.
Founders of Wikipedia. There are two co-founders of Wikipedia : Larry Sanger (born 1968), American internet project developer. Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur.
Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Donal Wales (born on August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the non-profit free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia). He has worked on other online projects, including Bomis ...
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Citizendium ( / ˌsɪtɪˈzɛndiəm / SIT-i-ZEN-dee-əm; "the citizens' compendium of everything") [2] is an English-language wiki -based free online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger, [3] co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia. [4] It was first announced in September 2006 as a fork of the English Wikipedia, [5] but instead ...
Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is a former philosophy professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska . From an early age he has been interested in philosophy.
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia is a 2009 popular history book by new media researcher and writer Andrew Lih. [1] [2] [3] At the time of its publication it was "the only narrative account" of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (in English). [4] It covers the period from Wikipedia's ...
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia (Ph.D., 2000) R. Tom Sawyer, inventor of the first successful gas turbine locomotive and assisted with the development of the diesel locomotive (B.S. 1923, M.S. 1930) Betty Schmoll, founder of Hospice of Dayton, one of the first hospice programs in the United States (M.S. 1978) Ronald M. Sega, astronaut (M ...
The issue of whether Sanger could call himself co-founder of Wikipedia was also taken up on the wikipedia-l mailing list. Larry Sanger himself resubscribed after an absence of three years, to question Jimmy Wales' assertion that the original idea for a wiki encyclopaedia had come from another Bomis employee, Jeremy Rosenfeld.