Re:The Campaign to Delegitimize Wikipedia
by IndrekR on Sunday February 09, 2025 @03:43PM
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* Larry Sanger, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
Re:The Campaign to Delegitimize Wikipedia
by dhdjruf on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:42PM
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How is he a grifter? I don't see any mentions of bitcoin or ai in his wiki.
Jimmy wales has a masters in finance. Larry Sanger has a PhD in philosophy.
Who would you trust more a guy with a finance degree or a guy with a PD in philosophy with great interest in ethics?
Re:The Campaign to Delegitimize Wikipedia
by ZeroGravitas on Sunday February 09, 2025 @06:09PM
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He's always dabbled in right-wing culture war type stuff with his various Wikipedia alternatives but more recently he's been into QAnon and anti-vax stuff.
I'd got the impression he was doing it partly to get right-wing funding for his various projects but maybe he's a true believer and I'm doing him a great disservice by calling him a grifter and not a lunatic.
Re:The Campaign to Delegitimize Wikipedia
by insane_dreamer on Sunday February 09, 2025 @01:29PM
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I didn't know about that, thanks for the link; major kudos to them. Still, Wales has had many opportunities to "sell out".
https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-spanish-fork/
I was always mildly suspicious of Jimmy Wales but he seems to have done well. Considering what a grifter his co-founder Larry Sager has become, he's a saint by comparison.