[WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Thu Apr 16 23:42:28 UTC 2009


On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:31:41 -0400, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> 
wrote:

> Anyway, I was just rereading some of the discussion of Larry Sanger and
> Wikipedia, and noticed that while Wales claims that Jeremy Rosenfeld was the
> first to propose using wikis to work on Nupedia, he admits that it was
> Sanger who convinced him to actually do it. 

But Ben Kovitz claims to be the one who, in turn, gave Sanger the 
idea of using an open public wiki for encyclopedia development:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BenKovitz


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