In the long run--ten and thirty years from now--the merit of Sanger's claim to coufoundership of Wikipedia is likely to be measured by the success of Citizendium.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < cimonavaro@gmail.com> wrote:
Ken Arromdee wrote:
He obviously is claiming that things which we say are true, aren't.
Even
in the non-article case, where he objects to the factual content of proclamations by us instead of articles by us, this is something we should pay
attention
to.>>
Proclamations by Jimmy, not by anyone else.
Is it clear that the proclamations from him don't necessarily represent
our
opinion and should not be taken as such (particularly by reporters)?
Yes it actually was. The context in which the *interpretations* of the historical events by Jimbo which got up Mr. Sanger's nose were expressed, was clearly one in which Jimbo was speaking in a personal faculty, and not as a representative of the foundation, and in my view fell squarely on freedom of opinion.
There are issues of fact which support a different interpretation than the one Jimbo appears to uphold, but in the final analysis it all hinges on what ones definition of the term "co-founder" is, and is it something formal that is inalienable; call somebody a co-founder once and you can't correct the record later. A favorable gloss on the interpretation Jimbo holds is that the early mentions of Mr. Sanger as a co-founder were symbolic and as a courtesy and as such not to be taken as a comment on his role in terms of historical fact.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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