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Lawrence Mark Sanger (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər / ⓘ; [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.
Larry Sanger (born 1968), ... Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur; See also. History of Wikipedia § Founding of Wikipedia
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as August 8. [4] His father, Jimmy Sr., [5] was a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris Ann (née Dudley), and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning, [6] [7] a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales and his three siblings ...
In 2005, Wales described himself simply as the founder of Wikipedia; [234] however, according to Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, "Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder." [229] Sanger and Wales were referred to as co-founders in various press releases, interviews, and news reports from 2001 [238] and 2002. [239]
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia in 2001 as a feeder project to supplement Nupedia.The project was originally funded by Bomis, Wales's for-profit business, and edited by a rapidly growing community of volunteer editors.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales hopes to tackle fake news with a journalism outfit of his own. Wikitribune will be free to access and use crowdfunding to hire experienced reporters. They'll work ...
Taking aim at Wikipedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Musk argued that the site had become an extension of left-wing media or the “legacy media”, a term that has been adopted as a ...
Its main figures were Bomis CEO Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia. [1] [21] Nupedia was initially licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License, but before Wikipedia was founded, Nupedia switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urging of Richard Stallman.