Dr. Lawrence Mark “Larry” Sanger

The article Citizendium’ to challenge Wiki’s Web dominance said

A cofounder of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia written in collaborative fashion by the Internet community announced on Tuesday he is launching a rival service edited by experts.
 
A test version of “Citizendium” to be launched this week in Harmon, California will use experienced editors and subject authorities to tune information submitted by Web surfers.
 
“Wikipedia has accomplished great things, but the world can do even better,” said Larry Sanger, the Wikipedia founder who is spearheading the Citizendium “free knowledge project”.
 
“By engaging expert editors, eliminating anonymous contribution, and launching a more mature community under a new charter, a much broader and more influential group of people and institutions will be able to improve upon Wikipedia’s extremely useful, but often uneven work,” he added.

Dr. Lawrence Mark “Larry” Sanger is cofounder of Wikipedia and founder of the Citizendium project.
 
Larry authored The Role of Content Brokers in the Era of Free Content, Toward a New Compendium of Knowledge, The New Politics of Knowledge, Text and Collaboration: a personal manifesto for the Text Outline Project, The Future of Free Information, The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir, Why Collaborative Free Works Should Be Protected by the Law, Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism, Wikipedia subset proposal, and Why the free encyclopedia movement needs to be more like the free software movement. Read a full list of his articles!
 
He was employed as Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia. Responding to frustrations with the slow progress of Nupedia, in January 2001 he proposed the creation of a wiki to spur the development of articles, and the result of this proposal was Wikipedia. By virtue of his position with Nupedia, he spearheaded and named the project, and formulated much of the original policy. He was the only paid organizer of Wikipedia, a status he held from January 15, 2001, until his resignation on March 1, 2002.
 
Larry earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College (Portland, Oregon) in 1991, and a M.A. in Philosophy in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2000 from The Ohio State University.
 
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