Interesting. This article could be titled "Spanish Fork: In which
Edgar Enyedy made Wikipedia what it is today." Who knew his unilateral
decision to take things out of context and proportion was the crucial
determining factor in the future of the English Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Foundation?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 January 2011 17:24, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
I do think that the early history of WP is quite
a good example of why
we need historians, not just more self-serving memoirs. Even then I
doubt we'll fully understand why things turned out the way they did.
I must say, I found it made things a lot clearer to see that it was
Larry Sanger. Who, in his 2011 reply, insisted advertising was the
right idea *even though it made an entire language community get up
and leave*. Such community management skills are truly remarkable.
- d.
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