Wikipedia Co-Founder Seeks to Start Over

Iria · Mar 26, 2007, 03:57 AM

Source: Breitbart.com
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In just six years, Wikipedia has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane.

To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable—and relatively small—price to pay for the dazzling breadth spawned by its "anyone can edit" open design.

But Larry Sanger doesn't buy it. To Sanger—who was present at the creation of Wikipedia (in fact, call him a co-founder, although that, like many things within Wikipedia, is disputed)—its charms seem to outweigh its warts simply because it has no competition.

And that's precisely what Sanger hopes to change.

Mar 26, 2007, 03:57 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Wikipedia Co-Founder Seeks to Start Over Source: Breitbart.com ________ In just six years, Wikipedia has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane. To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable—and relatively small—price to pay for the dazzling breadth spawned by its "anyone can edit" open design. But Larry Sanger doesn't buy it. To Sanger—who was present at the creation of Wikipedia (in fact, call him a co-founder, although that, like many things within Wikipedia, is disputed)—its charms seem to outweigh its warts simply because it has no competition. And that's precisely what Sanger hopes to change.