[Wikipedia-l] Sanger/Wales wars continued

[Phil Sandifer]

Hasn't Jimbo indicated a preference for not calling Larry a co-founder?

-Snowspinner

On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:

> Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
>> Larry Sanger has again written at length about the history of 
>> Wikipedia
>> in two articles posted on Slashdot.
> [snip]
>> - including a follow-up by Sanger, giving his take on the "was he or
>> wasn't he the co-founder" debate, in particular
>
> I don't think any reasonable person would object to calling Larry a
> "co-founder of Wikipedia". To call one troll on a blog comment a
> "debate" is to blow things extraordinarily out of proportion.
>
> Larry hasn't been involved in the project in some three years (3/4 of
> its lifetime), and most Wikipedians today have had little or no
> interaction with Larry. As a result, he's seen now as an outsider, and
> his criticisms are easily (mis)interpreted as attacks against a
> community he's not part of.
>
> I've only skimmed these posts, but they seem to boil down to historical
> trivia ("we had 24 articles not 12!") and saying we should do things
> that are already on the roadmap (eg, a more formally-vetted release in
> addition to the rough-and-tumble development Wikipedia).
>
> It'd be nice if people could avoid making a mountain out of a molehill
> over this. Larry's not our enemy.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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