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Can you revisit this event and tell us how it unfolded? The possibility of advertising was out of the question.

His exact words were 'Bomis might well start selling ads on Wikipedia sometime within the next few months'. The clash that lead to your departure from Wikipedia, was sparked by a seemingly insignificant remark, made by Sanger in passing about the possibility of incorporating advertising in order to fund his future work on the encyclopaedia(s). I have to admit that he brought some good ideas to us, but the American Wiki was too caught up in the interests of Bomis Inc. The American Wikipedia might have seen him as a 'facilitator', but we regarded Sanger more like an obstacle. There were two people heading the project, and it was difficult to tell where the ideas came from. I really regard him as a co-founder of Wikipedia, even though this fact has become less visible over the years. Nupedia's failure left him spare time and he was allocated by Wales to Wikipedia. He was an employee, a Bomis-Wales wage-earning worker. Is this how he was generally received by the Spanish Wikipedia? EE: Larry Sanger acted as a Big Brother. Basically, it became very clear that the American template would not fit the Spanish project.įrom the early discussion lists (archived on osdir), it seems like Sanger very much acted like the leader or at least 'facilitator' of the entire Wikipedia project. We are used to our own history schemes and the American one didn't fit at all. Historiography is also obviously not the same. The organisation of topics, for example, is not the same across languages, cultures and education systems. Since the American Wikipedia began from scratch, I thought we should do just the same. The purpose is not such much to settle old scores (although there is a bit of that), but to provide some details on an event that significantly reshaped Wikipedia and what it would become.

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In software culture, this practice is known as 'forking' and the following interview with Enyedy brings the fork of 2002 back to life. Together with the rest of the Spanish Wikipedia community, they took the content they had written to another server, gave it a different name and carried on in a different direction.

He was involved in the Spanish Wikipedia from its launch on 20 May, 2001, until mid-February 2002, when he abruptly left the project. Many features that define today's Wikipedia had to be fought for, and by people mostly overlooked in Wikipedia's mythology.Įdgar Enyedy is one such individual. In 2002, Wikipedia could have gone in many directions, including one such as this.

Imagine a Wikipedia with Larry Sanger calling the shots as chief editor, with a dot-com domain and overseen by a commercial enterprise instead of a foundation.

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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge, brought to you by Coca-Cola. This was a contributing factor to the departure of the entire team of Spanish Wikipedia, which jumped ship in 2002 to set up its own collaborative encyclopaedia, Enciclopedia Libre Universal.

As Wikipedia reaches its 10th birthday, .uk reflects on a period of time in its early years when Wikipedia was considering taking advertising.