[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Thu Sep 15 16:35:33 UTC 2011


> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And, as Andrew Lih mentioned, Wikipedia *had* payed editor at the
>> beginning.
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> Did I say this? I don't remember saying so.
>
> In my book I described Nupedia, and how that system of having a paid head
> didn't work out (namely, Larry Sanger as editor in chief).
>
> -Andrew

Actually Larry Sanger was on the payroll of Bomis for a while when
Wikipedia was starting, perhaps as long a year. During that time Nupedia
was still operating.

Fred





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