philosopher
Ex-professor americano, co-fundador da Wikipedia, fundador da Citizendium e outros projetos (nascido em 1968)
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Join the roomLawrence Mark Sanger é um desenvolvedor de projetos de internet e filósofo americano que co-fundou a Wikipedia com Jimmy Wales. Sanger cunhou o nome Wikipedia e forneceu rascunhos iniciais para muitas de suas diretrizes iniciais, incluindo as políticas "Neutral point of view" e "Ignore all rules". Antes da Wikipedia, ele foi o editor-chefe da Nupedia, uma enciclopédia online que foi a predecessora da Wikipedia. Mais tarde, trabalhou em outros projetos enciclopédicos, incluindo a Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, Everipedia e Ballotpedia. Os outros interesses de Sanger incluem teologia e filosofia, como epistemologia, filosofia moderna inicial e ética. Ele lecionou filosofia na Ohio State University.
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“Suppose that, as is perfectly possible, Wikipedia continues producing articles at a rate of 1,000 per month. In seven years, it would have 84,000 articles.”
“I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.”
“Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).”
“Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.”
“It's become both opaque and centralized, centralized in the sense that the authority to participate in Wikipedia has been greatly restricted. You can be completely anonymous and even be a top-ranked Wikipedia user with administrator rights. So, they could be working for various corporations, various government spy agencies, maybe for criminal organizations.”
“Wikipedia is so ironic. We wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, but what emerged was one of the most effective organs of Establishment propaganda in history.”
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