[Wikipedia-l] Sanger/Wales wars continued

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Wed Apr 20 02:37:08 UTC 2005


Brion Vibber wrote:

> 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.

Since Jimbo has explicitly objected to calling Larry a "co-founder of 
Wikipedia" several times, including in replies to one of Larry's 
Kuro5hin articles, I'm not sure how it's just "one troll".  According to 
Jimbo, Larry neither co-founded Wikipedia nor proposed the idea of a 
wiki-based encyclopedia, but was merely an employee tasked with starting 
it up.

-Mark




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