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Wikipedia Co-Founder Unloads on Wikileaks

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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)11/28/2010 1:09:52 am PST

re: #205 Gus 802

Larry Sanger IS a co-founder of Wikipedia:

I did not ever deny or question this. The truth of the matter is, though:

The whole “Wikipedia’s co-founder” title is a little pretentious. Sanger left Wikipedia as soon as he realized what it was (not just an encyclopedia but also a wiki in which anybody could contribute — a realization that horrified him eventually). He has not had any real authority or credibility with Wikipedia and their community of contributors for about 8 years (!) now. Quite the opposite, he continually tries to smear it, as shown by his recent, pathetic attempt to connect Wikimedia to the distribution of child pornography, a story broken by Fox News…