Larry Sanger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1968

Place of Birth: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Profession: businessperson, computer scientist, philosopher, blogger

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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Lawrence Mark Sanger (; born July 16, 1968) is an American internet project developer and co-founder of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he named and wrote much of the original governing policy for.
He has also worked on other online educational websites such as Nupedia, Citizendium, Everipedia, and the Encyclosphere. Developing an interest in using the internet for education during college, he joined the online encyclopedia Nupedia as editor-in-chief in 2000.
Disappointed in the slow progress of Nupedia, he proposed a wiki to solicit and receive articles to put through Nupedia's peer-review process, which led to the development and launch of Wikipedia in 2001.
He served as Wikipedia's community leader in its early stages, but became increasingly disillusioned with the project and left it in 2002. Since his departure from Wikipedia he has been critical of the project, arguing that despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility due to a lack of respect for expertise and authority.
He founded Citizendium in 2006 to rival Wikipedia.
His status as a co-founder of Wikipedia has been called into question by fellow co-founder Jimmy Wales, but is generally accepted. Outside of the internet Sanger's interests have been focused mainly on philosophy, in particular epistemology, early modern philosophy, and ethics.
He formerly taught philosophy at his alma mater Ohio State University.