[WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

[Anthony]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:31:41 -0400, Anthony <wikimail at 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
>

I'm not sure why there's a "But" at the start of that sentence.  The two
points are in no way incompatible.