On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:40:53 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: > 1) Wales' role in the genesis of Wikipedia is much more significant > than Sanger's. "Co-founder" is giving too much credit. The guy that > has the idea, the inspiration and the drive to make it happen deserves > more credit than the guy who implements it. "Employee" is probably > giving too little.
It was my understanding that Ben Kovitz first expressed the idea of starting a wiki-based encyclopedia, in a conversation with Sanger at a Mexican restaurant right after the Purist Turn of the Millennium. Sanger then took the idea and ran with it, announcing first a "Nupedia wiki" and then Wikipedia on mailing lists. Wales' role was as Sanger's employer who paid for the whole thing, but the ideas seemed to come from elsewhere. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
