[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia was founded for OR

[Charles Matthews]

gwern0 at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm a little skeptical that this is any of the real reasons, given the 
> fallibility of human memory, and never seeing anything like this 
> mentioned in materials from the early days - but this would be a great 
> reason, because this doctor is not described as publishing in an RS, 
> so his knowledge is OR! 
The story about Kira fills in something Jimbo mentioned before, though. 
I gave up a while ago on thinking the early history of WP was something 
a historian could completely elucidate. This story adds another layer to 
the question of the motivations of one of the principal actors 
(something the historians will eventually have to deal with).

Charles