http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/wikipedia-spanish-fork?page=1
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@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 January 2011 17:24, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@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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