On 21 January 2011 17:24, Charles Matthews
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I do think that the early history of WP is quite a good example of why
> we need historians, not just more self-serving memoirs. Even then I
> doubt we'll fully understand why things turned out the way they did.


I must say, I found it made things a lot clearer to see that it was
Larry Sanger. Who, in his 2011 reply, insisted advertising was the
right idea *even though it made an entire language community get up
and leave*. Such community management skills are truly remarkable.


- d.

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