User:Larry Sanger

Larry Sanger is editor-in-chief of Nupedia and (with Jimbo Wales) instigator of Wikipedia. Ph.D. 2000, M.A. 1995, Philosophy, Ohio State University. B.A. 1991 Philosophy, Reed College. Home town is Anchorage, Alaska. Can be reached at lsanger at nupedia.com.

Until December 2001, I was a full-time paid employee of Bomis, spending most of my work time on Wikipedia. As of February 1, I was no longer paid at all; I made an announcement explaining that I'd continue on as a part-time volunteer. As of March 1, however, I have resigned responsibility for leading Wikipedia and as editor-in-chief of Nupedia; my reasons are given in my letter of resignation to the community. To reiterate, primarily I need this extra time to find a job, and I feel that I cannot work effectively as a leader when I am working only as a part-time volunteer.

I've settled in the Columbus, Ohio area.

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(This picture was taken for a New York Times article about Wikipedia.)

What I've written here

I worked on many hundreds of articles. I originated quite a few. I inflicted a series of philosophy lectures first on Ohio State students, and now on Wikipedia.

I wrote a few 'pedia-related columns, which I moved to Wikipedia's meta-discussion wiki.

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About "'Wikipedia-l' My resignation"

You will return, friend!

1 saludo RatBert

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Well, there are two ways of interpreting that: (1) I won't be able to keep away, despite my protests of quitting; (2) I will someday get my job back. As to (1), you could be right. I guess we'll see, but I have successfully managed to stay away from other projects I've started before (there have been several). I hope not in this case, anyway, because golly, I need to use my time to get a job.  :-) As to (2), if that's what you mean, your gesture of support is greatly appreciated. --Larry_Sanger

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Re a recent user's subpage deletion by yours truly (it was a catalog of quotations by me that were critical of him): ahh, that was enormously satisfying.  :-) --Larry_Sanger

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I need a little bit of advice and I think you would know :). I want to write the Nupedia article on harps, but I'm in high school and so I don't have any real qualifications besides that I'm a harpist. Is that enough to write an article based on the Wikipedia one (which I wrote almost completely) or should I wait several more years until I have degrees and things? Thanks! --Dreamyshade

Dreamyshade, Larry has (sadly) left both the Wikipedia and Nupedia projects. Read the announcement on the announcements page, or have a look on the wikipedia-l mail archive for the full story. The implications for Nupedia are very serious, less so for Wikipedia. --Robert Merkel

Thanks, but I knew that already. :( I was hoping that he'd still drop by once in a while, and he still would have a good sense of I should write that article or not. It's just something I was thinking about, maybe I'll do it anyway and see what happens. --Dreamyshade

I will answer on your page, Dreamyshade! --LMS (back on a relatively lazy Sunday)