[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[Milos Rancic]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 15:07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 16:46, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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).
>>
>> While I don't like Sanger, it shouldn't be forgot that he was
>> responsible for building the initial system on Wikipedia itself.
>> Wikinews, unlike Wikipedia, requires larger care; not just setting up
>> very initial rules.¨
>
> Not so, and not so. I don't square with either of your interpretation´of
> the history...

"not so, not so =" "You like Sanger" and "it should be forgot"? :P

> The fact that Larry Sanger did not pan out as an editor in chief had
> nothing to do with the fact that he was paid for his work. He could
> have worked for peanuts or completely gratis, and what we would
> have had would have been a premature Citizendium.
>
> As for "building" the initial system of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger fought
> the building of it tooth and nail to the last, until Jimbo realized he was
> doing more harm than good.

One thing is what he wanted, the other is what he did. He created the
roots of Wikipedia, no matter if he preferred Nupedia.