Larry Sanger

Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he has been interested in philosophy. Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. Most of his philosophical work has focused on epistemology, the theory of knowledge.

He has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects. He is the former editor-in-chief of Nupedia, chief organizer (2001–02) of its successor, Wikipedia, and founding editor-in-chief of Citizendium. From his position at Nupedia, he assembled the process for article development. Sanger proposed implementing a wiki, which led directly to the creation of Wikipedia. Initially Wikipedia was a complementary project for Nupedia. He was Wikipedia's early community leader and established many of its original policies.

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"High quality of content is essential because we want an information resource to allow us to gain knowledge. Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness."
"Accuracy is going to increase the more expert eyeballs get at the topic."
"Availability is best achieved by making the resource both widespread and as inexpensive as possible."
"What the world really needs is a single information resource that excels across the board. We will start engaging the public in various ways this year."
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