User talk:QuackGuru
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- OK. Lets review the facts:
- It does not matter what Wales' opinion or Sanger's opinion is.
- Undue weight does not apply in this case when facts must be written from a neutral point of view.
- What is th definition of founder. A person who established Wikipedia.
- Two people worked togther to establish and build Wikipedia from the beginning.
- When two people work together and start a project from the very beginning they will be both called co-founders.
- There was never a dispute when Larry Sanger was still part of this project.
- Mr. Jimmy Wales has never given any documented evidence for his new version (since 2004) of reality (revisionism).
- At the risk of repeating myself, Wales never disputed his co-founder position before 2004.
- I have provided strong evidence (references) to color the picture.
- Here are some references for Wikipdians to get to up to speed on the facts and the history of Wikipedia.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/technology/24online.ready.html?#ex=1293080400&en=431aff478b00239e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Early Media Coverage
- http://www.larrysanger.org/roleinwp.html Links and more links
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&dir=prev&offset=20040119212409&limit=500&action=history Early versions of Wikipedia pages
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Wikipedia&dir=prev&limit=500&action=history Early versions of Wikipedia pages
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry_Sanger&dir=prev&limit=500&action=history Early versions of Wikipedia pages
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&offset=20040909053247&limit=500&action=history Early versions of Wikipedia pages
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/January_2002 Official Wikipedia Press Release of 2002
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/January_2003 Official Wikipedia Press Release of 2003
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/February_2004 Official Wikipedia Press Release of 2004
- http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WIKIPEDIA_FOUNDERS?SITE=NCASH&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
- http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213&tid=95&tid=149&tid=9
- http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205&tid=95
- http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/12/bias_sabotage_haunt_wikipedias_free_world/?page=4
- http://news.com.com/Wikipedia+co-founder+plans+expert+rival/2100-1038_3-6126469
- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222922,00.html
- http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia/
Wales and Sanger created the first Nupedia wiki on January 10, 2001. The initial purpose was to get the public to add entries that would then be “fed into the Nupedia process” of authorization. Most of Nupedia’s expert volunteers, however, wanted nothing to do with this, so Sanger decided to launch a separate site called “Wikipedia.” Neither Sanger nor Wales looked on Wikipedia as anything more than a lark. This is evident in Sanger’s flip announcement of Wikipedia to the Nupedia discussion list. “Humor me,” he wrote. “Go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes.” And, to Sanger’s surprise, go they did. Within a few days, Wikipedia outstripped Nupedia in terms of quantity, if not quality, and a small community developed. In late January, Sanger created a Wikipedia discussion list (Wikipedia-L) to facilitate discussion of the project. At the end of January, Wikipedia had seventeen “real” articles (entries with more than 200 characters). By the end of February, it had 150; March, 572; April, 835; May, 1,300; June, 1,700; July, 2,400; August, 3,700. At the end of the year, the site boasted approximately 15,000 articles and about 350 “Wikipedians.”[1]
- Yours Cordially, :) - Mr.Gurü (talk/contribs) 00:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
