Larry Sanger : Citizendium Blog, This founder’s vision has not yet become reality Options

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Larry Sanger : Citizendium Blog

This founder’s vision has not yet become reality

"In an Inside Higher Ed column, “Professors Should Embrace Wikipedia,” Mark A. Wilson claims of Wikipedia, “The vision of its founders, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, has become reality…” Wilson calls on college professors to get involved in Wikipedia, using their own real names. One has to wonder if this is an April Fool’s gag, but it’s a pretty sober-sounding piece. Here’s is my response, which I added to the IHE comments: I’m Larry Sanger, and this is false. Please do not use my name to encourage professors to get involved in Wikipedia. My vision has always been for a maximally reliable information resource—not one that is controlled by faceless, often hostile, often irresponsible people, many of them teenagers and college students."

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Some comments from University of British Columbia professor/instructor(?) Jon Murray are knee-slappers. Notably, the one where he says that Wikipedia's standards are higher than the Eduzendium program that Sanger has crafted within Citizendium. Too funny.

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Larry also says, in comments:

I am attacking “faceless, often hostile, often irresponsible people” on Wikipedia. That is in the quotation itself. And indeed we don’t want those people involved with CZ. We’re happy they’re enthusiastic about Wikipedia. I mention that many of them are teenagers and college students, to underscore the point that the leadership of Wikipedia is heavy on people with immature judgment — which might sound like an insult, but it is simply a hard truth.

Comment by Larry Sanger — April 1, 2008 @ 4:08 pm