On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:31:41 -0400, Anthony wikimail@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