Larry didn't have an exaggerated role, he really did run the project in the early days.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > On 15/12/10 11:17, Brian J Mingus wrote: > > Browsing through the earliest revisions in the revision index ( > > http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/revisions.html) is rather > > interesting and full of fodder for founder debates. Consider these very > > early revisions: > > > > "[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia.com] is an open content, international, > > peer reviewed project run by LarrySanger, who got the idea of > supplementing > > NuPedia with a less formal "wiki" encyclopedia project. " - > > http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/979694938.txt > > > > "EditorInChief of NuPedia and instigator of Nupedia's wiki. " > > http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/979690096.txt > > > > Sanger's claims to coming up with the idea of adding the wiki concept to > the > > online encyclopedia concept clearly go all the way back to the beginning. > Of > > course, that doesn't speak to offline conversations that gave rise to the > > idea. > > I've long suspected that the early FAQs and history pages gave Larry > Sanger an exaggerated role because he wrote them himself. It will be > interesting to see if any such conclusion can be drawn from the > archives. Note that 979694938 was by dhcp058.246.lvcm.com, which > appears to be Larry. > > By the way, the numbers in the revisions, e.g. 979694938, are UNIX > timestamps. That one was 17 Jan 2001, 01:28:58 UTC. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l