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Larry Sanger

Disciplines:
technology
technology/wikipedia
epistemology/epistemics
civilization/decentralization

Summary

American internet entrepreneur who co-founded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales and subsequently left to found Citizendium — and who has become a prominent critic of Wikipedia's neutrality problems and big tech's control of information infrastructure.

Core Contribution

Co-created the world's most widely consulted reference work — Wikipedia — and then became one of its most articulate critics, demonstrating the structural problems (political capture, editor oligarchy) that emerge when ostensibly neutral information systems develop without adequate governance.

Historical Influences

Wikipedia model Information epistemics

Intellectual Lineage

Wikipedia Citizendium EveripediaDecentralized information infrastructure

Contemporaries & Peers

Jimmy WalesEric Weinstein

Minds Influenced

Internet epistemics debateHistory 102

Intellectual Posterity

Wikipedia Citizendium Wikipedia bias critique

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