| ▲ | reddalo 8 hours ago | |
>He may not be with the project now, but don't airbrush him out of history. I don't want to defend Jimbo Wales (he's very touchy about the subject), but to be honest, even if he's a founder, Larry Sanger didn't contribute much to what Wikipedia today is. | ||
| ▲ | dlubarov 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Larry Singer was essentially running Wikipedia in the early days though, until he was laid off, so in some sense we could think of him as a co-founder who was ousted. It's true that he didn't contribute much (as an unpaid volunteer) after that though. | ||