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    That's actually when it was getting its funding," says Sanger. "That's also when the star of Wikipedia really began to rise and started to enter into public consciousness. Jimmy Wales had a real financial motive to portray himself as the brains behind Wikipedia, when I really don't think he was." Calacanis, too, says Wales used Wikipedia's success to attract funding for Wikia: "He just got a bunch of people to give him a bunch of money thinking, 'Oh, this is the guy who created Wikipedia.' Well guess what? Full Article at Internet Evolution
    That's also when the star of Wikipedia really began to rise and started to enter into public consciousness. Jimmy Wales had a real financial motive to portray himself as the brains behind Wikipedia, when I really don't think he was.
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
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Wikipedia Co-Founder Speaks Out Against Jimmy Wales
  1. So basically I made the proposal for what became Wikipedia.
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  2. I've dealt with him enough to know that he makes it very difficult to read his motives. He has reasons to lie, and he's shown he is a liar, actually, in my opinion.
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  3. I tried to confront him last spring by putting an open letter to him on his Wikipedia user page, and he and his minions very quickly took it down
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  4. There's a big misconception that Jimmy Wales is a huge genius ... He doesn't know what the [expletive deleted] he's doing. He's a fraud.
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  5. The other problem was the community had essentially been taken over by trolls to a great extent. That was a real problem, and Jimmy Wales absolutely refused to do anything about it.
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  6. To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine...
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  7. He just got a bunch of people to give him a bunch of money thinking, 'Oh, this is the guy who created Wikipedia.' Well guess what? He didn't create Wikipedia. Larry Sanger did.
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  8. I thought that the project would never have the amount of credibility it could have if it were somehow more open and welcoming to experts
    SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago
  9. In 2004, at just the time when he was leaving out any mention of me in discussing the history of Wikipedia, he was starting Wikia. That's actually when it was getting its funding
    – Larry Sanger SOURCE: Internet Evolution 2 months ago

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