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    Wikipedia Co-Founder Speaks Out Against Jimmy Wales
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    (The text of the letter is available here .) Sanger believes Wales's reasons for denying his status as co-founder were at least partly financially motivated. "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" says Sanger. "That's also when the star of Wikipedia really began to rise and started to enter into public consciousness. Full Article at Internet Evolution
    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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
  9. 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 1 month ago

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