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.
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