Larry Sanger

Larry Sanger is an American internet project developer who co-founded Wikipedia and later founded the online encyclopedia Citizendium.

Nupedia: Nupedia was an online encyclopedia launched in 2000 that used expert review and a lengthy editorial process. Sanger served as Nupedia’s editor-in-chief before Wikipedia began.
Jimmy Wales: Jimmy Wales is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Wikipedia and founded the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales and Sanger worked together on Nupedia and launched Wikipedia.
Expert review: Expert review is the evaluation of work by people with relevant subject knowledge before publication or acceptance. Nupedia emphasized expert review, while Wikipedia initially prioritized rapid open contribution.
Wikiversity: Wikiversity is a Wikimedia project for learning resources, teaching activities, and research. Sanger proposed an educational wiki project that influenced the initiative later launched as Wikiversity.
Wikipedia: Wikipedia is a collaboratively written online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, subject to its policies and community practices. Sanger helped launch Wikipedia in 2001 as a faster complement to Nupedia.
Denny Vrandecic: Denny Vrandecic is a computer scientist who founded Wikidata and served as an early Wikipedia administrator. His work on structured knowledge connects to Sanger’s later advocacy for semantic web technologies.
Wiki: A wiki is a website whose pages can be collaboratively created and edited through a web browser. Wikipedia uses wiki software, the open editing model Sanger later argued needed stronger safeguards.
Digital public sphere: The digital public sphere is the online space where people exchange information and debate matters of shared concern. Sanger’s disputes about online knowledge address who can shape public information and how.
Citizendium: Citizendium is an online encyclopedia founded by Larry Sanger that combines open editing with expert oversight. Sanger founded it after leaving Wikipedia, aiming to add accountability and subject expertise.
Richard Stallman: Richard Stallman is a computer programmer who founded the free software movement and the GNU Project. Sanger’s free-knowledge advocacy intersects with Stallman’s arguments about software and information freedom.

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