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FF-158: Larry Sanger on the early days of Wikipedia, what's went wrong, and possible fixes
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This was originally recorded on 29 February 2024.
Along with Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger is one of the co-founders of Wikipedia. We talk about the early days of Wikipedia. We also talk about Larry and Jimmy's participation in on-line Objectivist discussion groups in the 1990's. We talk about Wikipedia's growth and how it has been taken over by a certain demographic of users. We talk about possible solutions to biases on Wikipedia. We also talk about Wikipedia's refusal to censor at the behest of governments like the totalitarian state of China. Larry now calls himself an "ex-founder" and has moved onto other projects.
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