Larry Sanger

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Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (classe 1968), dottore in epistemologia, è cofondatore di Wikipedia

Anchorage, Alaska, is right in the top left-hand corner of a map of the world. The remote city is where Larry Sanger spent his formative years, having been born in the state of Washington. (Information World Review, 27 novembre 2006)

era il primo capo editore di Nupedia. Nupedia was a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content.

After sharing his wiki idea, Sanger formally proposed a "feeder" project for Nupedia titled "Let's make a wiki and created a new page on Ward's wiki named "WikiPedia.

è stato capo organizzatore di Wikipedia (2001-2002) ed ha determinato molte delle policies iniziali.

formulated much of the original policy, including "Wikipedia:en:Ignore all rules"

Sanger was the only paid editor of Wikipedia, a status he held from January 15, 2001, until March 1, 2002. Sanger worked on and promoted both the Nupedia and Wikipedia projects until Bomis discontinued funding for his position in February 2002;

Sanger resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and as chief organizer of Wikipedia on March 1.

Nupedia shut down the following year in 2003. Nupedia was hailed as one of the greatest defunct websites in history.

After departing from Wikipedia in 2002, Sanger became critical of Wikipedia. He articulated that despite the projects merits, the encyclopedia lacks credibility due to, among other things, its lack of respect for expertise

Wales began to play down Sanger's role in the founding of the project in 2005, a few years after Sanger left Wikipedia.

È creatore di en:Citizendium: October 23, 2006 (pilot), March 25, 2007 (public)

Crede in una struttura più piramidale dell'esperto. (CBC News, 19 aprile 2007)

Articoli rilevanti

• Kuro5hin, 30 dicembre 2004
• Wired, 2 marzo 2005
• Wired, 19 dicembre 2005
  • The New York Times, 24 dicembre 2005 (vignetta)
  • Workbench, 19 dicembre 2005 (blog originale)
• The Guardian, 13 luglio 2006
• The New Yorker, 31 luglio 2006
• History channel?, 19. October 2006
• Information World Review, 27 novembre 2006
• Philanthropy News Digest, March 27, 2007
• CBC News, 19 aprile 2007
• The Ohio State University, 1 giugno 2007
• The Times, 7 settembre 2007
• Athlantic Monthly, settembre 2006 (The Hive)

Link rilevanti

• http://www.larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Larry_Sanger/Origins_of_Wikipedia&oldid=39843351
• en:User:BenKovitz
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expertise
• Meta:My_resignation--Larry_Sanger, March 1, 2002

Mail,...

• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000671.html

Da fare

Encyclopedia of Earth.

Citizendium launched

In reference to creating a new encyclopedia project Sanger stated: "I think there is a need for a more reliable and free [online] encyclopedia. If we can create a more reliable and free encyclopedia, particularly if we adopt a different system than Wikipedia's, then we should." Citizendium's editor-in-chief Sanger commented in late October 2007 about Citizendium's one-year anniversary from its initial private launch date of October 30, 2006. According to Sanger, the Citizendium's readers have only just begun to see the power of the project's model:

"Simply put, we've pioneered a new and better way to use wikis, and an interesting, dynamic way to build an online knowledge base. Increasingly, the Citizendium is looking like the next step in the evolution of the collaborative Internet. The project's fundamentals are solid and growing stronger through motivated, diligent effort. Given enough time and enough people, the results would surely be amazing. If this possibility is amazing, it is even more amazing that it's within our grasp. What I do know is that if we do have a good chance to create something so stupefyingly useful for humanity, we must try."

When asked in an interview with The Minnesota Daily: Do you see a role for Citizendium anywhere in academia? He responded: "Of course. The idea is it will be good enough for professors to be able to send their students and students to get reliable information from. I know a lot of students use Wikipedia as a place to start to learn about a subject. For that purpose it's fine. I actually think, as a place to start to get some information, it's a fine resource. Approved articles on Citizendium hopefully will be more reliable than articles on Wikipedia."

Citizendium v. Wikipedia

Building on Sanger's experience from other collaborative encyclopedias, Citizendium represents an effort to establish a scholarly and credible online encyclopedia. Sanger aims to improve upon the wiki-based encyclopedia model by bringing more accountability and academic quality to articles. In an interview with CNET News in 2007 Sanger explained the reasons for starting a Wikipedia alternative:

"I think we absolutely need another wiki--first of all, simply because Wikipedia lacks credibility, unfortunately. It's a good starting place, as people say--on some subjects anyway--but it isn't really what we want out of a reliable reference resource. And frankly, I don't think that the Wikipedia community is prepared to make the changes that I think need to be made in order to transform Wikipedia into something that's really reliable."

While Citizendium is wiki-based, several aspects set it apart from Wikipedia. Prospective contributors on Citizendium are required to sign in using real names. In contrast, users to Wikipedia may contribute anonymously, or choose one or a series of user names that have no connection to their true names. Experts in their field of expertise have a role in the Citizendium community to approve articles on the basis of accuracy, as opposed to the Good Article and the Featured Article systems on Wikipedia that employs a review by editors. While Wikipedia is perceived to promote consensus and not truth, and verifiability is the inclusion criteria - reporting on what other sources have to say, Citizendium experts have the final say for article content and it is not necessary to verify information for a content decision on Citizendium. Finally, while vandalization of articles takes up time and effort on the part of Wikipedia's editors to uncover and revert, Citizendium presumably aims to prevent vandalism.

Selected writings

• Who Says We Know: On The New Politics of Knowledge. Edge Foundation - Edge Reality Club, April 2007.
• Education 2.0. The Focus Online, June 2007.
• Why the Citizendium Will (Probably) Succeed. Citizendium, March 2007.
• Toward a New Compendium of Knowledge. Citizendium, September 2006.
• Humanity's Coming Enlightenment. Edge Foundation - World Question Center, 2007.
• The Future of Free Information. The Digital Universe Journal, 2006.