Anderson, Nate「Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia」『』Ars Technica、February 25, 2007。2007年3月25日閲覧。「Citizendium currently has over 500 participants, most of whom have been individually screened. Growth has been sometimes erratic, Larry Sanger says that the site gained 50 - 75 contributors on a single day after being featured on Slashdot. Edits have now topped 500 per day, which Larry Sanger says compares favorably with the earliest days of Wikipedia.」
“Ben Kovitz”. WikiWikiWeb. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BenKovitz2007年3月25日閲覧。Ben Kovitz wrote on his Wikipedia user page about his conversation in Pacific Beach, San Diego at the taco stand with Larry Sanger that led to the creation of Wikipedia, stating in part: "I suggested that he run Nupedia as a wiki: completely reverse the prior policy of careful review by credentialed experts before letting an article go live. I said, instead of trying to prevent error and bias, to openly invite error and bias and make it very easy for people to correct them. It's a rare thing to tell someone to do something exactly the opposite of what he's been doing and get a fair hearing. It almost never happens that someone actually takes the suggestion. But Larry Sanger is different. Larry Sanger listened to what I had to say, let his imagination engage, and ran with it. Back then, wikis were a very hard concept to "get," but Larry's mind began percolating immediately, and he got things started that very night."
Bergstein, Brian (March 25, 2007). “Sanger says he co-started Wikipedia”. ABC News (Associated Press). http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=29800462007年3月25日閲覧. "The nascent Web encyclopedia Citizendium springs from Larry Sanger, a philosophy Ph.D. who counts himself as a co-founder of Wikipedia, the site he now hopes to usurp. The claim doesn't seem particularly controversial - Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder. Yet the other founder, Jimmy Wales, isn't happy about it."
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Moody, Glyn (July 13, 2006). “This time, it'll be a Wikipedia written by experts”. The Guardian. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1818630,00.html2007年3月25日閲覧. "Larry Sanger seems to have a thing about free online encyclopedias. Although his main claim to fame is as the co-founder, along with Jimmy Wales, of Wikipedia, that is just one of several projects to produce large-scale, systematic stores of human knowledge he has been involved in. Jimmy Wales saw that I was essentially looking for employment online and he was looking for someone to lead Nupedia... Career: 1992-1996, 1997-1998 Graduate teaching associate, OSU; 2000-2002 Editor-in-chief, Nupedia; Co-founder and "chief organiser," Wikipedia."
Singer, Michael「Free Encyclopedia Project Celebrates Year One」『Jupitermedia』Internet Archive、January 16, 2002。オリジナルの2003年3月16日時点におけるアーカイブ。2007年3月25日閲覧。「Jimmy Wales has supplied the financial backing and other support for the project, and Sanger, who earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Ohio State in 2000, has led the project.」
Boran, Marie (July 16, 2007). “Wikipedia disrespects experts says co-founder”. Silicon Republic. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single87942007年7月16日閲覧. "Apart from advertising, Sanger and co-founder Wales also disagree about who actually founded Wikipedia in the first place. Wales has previously claimed to be the sole founder of the online collaborative encyclopedia. Maybe he should check his facts on Wikipedia which says that both men were identified as co-founders in 2001."
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Sanger, Larry「The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir」『SourceForge』Slashdot、April 18, 2005。2007年3月25日閲覧。「The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on. So I arrived in San Diego in early February, 2000, to get to work. One of the first things I asked Jimmy Wales is how free a rein I had in designing the project. What were my constraints, and in what areas was I free to exercise my own creativity? He replied, as I clearly recall, that most of the decisions should be mine, and in most respects, as a manager, Jimmy Wales was indeed very hands-off. Nevertheless, I always did consult with him about important decisions, and moreover, I wanted his advice. Now, Jimmy Wales was quite clear that he wanted the project to be in principle open to everyone to develop, just as open source software is (to an extent). Beyond this, however, I believe I was given a pretty free rein. So I spent the first month or so thinking very broadly about different possibilities.」—Larry Sanger. •
Sanger, Larry (April 19, 2005). “The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia, Part II”. SourceForge (Slashdot). http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205&tid=952007年3月25日閲覧。
Poe, Marshall (September 2006). “The Hive”. The Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia/2007年3月25日閲覧. "Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger created the first Nupedia wiki on January 10, 2001. The initial purpose was to get the public to add entries that would then be “fed into the Nupedia process” of authorization. Most of Nupedia’s expert volunteers, however, wanted nothing to do with this, so Larry Sanger decided to launch a separate site called “Wikipedia.” Neither Larry Sanger nor Wales looked on Wikipedia as anything more than a lark. This is evident in Sanger’s flip announcement of Wikipedia to the Nupedia discussion list. “Humor me,” he wrote. “Go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes.” And, to Larry Sanger’s surprise, go they did. Within a few days, Wikipedia outstripped Nupedia in terms of quantity, if not quality, and a small community developed. In late January, Larry Sanger created a Wikipedia discussion list (Wikipedia-L) to facilitate discussion of the project."
Poe, Marshall (September 2006). “The Hive”. The Atlantic Monthly. p. 3. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia/32007年3月25日閲覧。Over tacos that night, Sanger explained his concerns about Nupedia’s lack of progress, the root cause of which was its serial editorial system. As Nupedia was then structured, no stage of the editorial process could proceed before the previous stage was completed. Kovitz brought up the wiki and sketched out “wiki magic,” the mysterious process by which communities with common interests work to improve wiki pages by incremental contributions. If it worked for the rambunctious hacker culture of programming, Kovitz said, it could work for any online collaborative project. The wiki could break the Nupedia bottleneck by permitting volunteers to work simultaneously all over the project. With Kovitz in tow, Larry Sanger rushed back to his apartment and called Wales to share the idea. Over the next few days he wrote a formal proposal for Jimmy Wales and started a page on Cunningham’s wiki called “WikiPedia.”
Singer, Michael「Free Encyclopedia Project Celebrates Year One」『Jupitermedia』Internet Archive、January 16, 2002。オリジナルの2003年3月16日時点におけるアーカイブ。2007年3月25日閲覧。「Jimmy Wales has supplied the financial backing and other support for the project, and Sanger, who earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Ohio State in 2000, has led the project.」
