Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature
I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.” A quarter of a century ago, Jimmy Wales’ company Bomis hired me to start a free encyclopedia. The first draft, from which we learned much, was Nupedia—it made slow progress. So, a year later, on January 2, 2001, when a friend told me about wikis, I immediately began imagining a wiki encyclopedia.
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Jimmy Wales on advertisement
A comment in Wired UK has Jimmy Wales saying this: Sanger was absolutely adamant that Wikipedia must have ads, and it was my refusal to do so that led to Wikipedia being as
1 comment on Jimmy Wales on advertisement6 minutesWatchKnow’s new FREE app
WatchKnow has finally released its iApp. Not that I am biased or anything (I did design it), but I think it is one of the best educational apps in the app store. More details
1 minuteJohnson v. Your Baby Can: not much of a case
I finally got my hands on the court filing for Johnson v. Your Baby Can. The case number is BC450907 and it was filed in Superior Court of Los Angeles County on December
14 minutesClass action lawsuit against YBCR
UPDATE 1: my apologies. I thought this was news, but it actually isn’t. I ran across this Courthouse News Service story, and the plaintiff is a Tondia Johnson, not Matthew Melmed (as I
2 minutesWatchKnow Reader coding gets under way!
I’m really pumped now! Technical development of WatchKnow Reader (tentative name) is now officially under way. After months of planning, requirements writing, and demo’ing, we are now starting a proof of concept that the software
2 minutesInvitation to collaborate on encyclopedia article
Some time ago I started working on a Citizendium article titled, tentatively, “Accelerated early childhood education.” (Is there a better name for this subject?) What is the Citizendium, you ask? It’s a wiki encyclopedia,
1 minuteInterview in Education News about infant reading
This morning, an interview I did a couple weeks ago appeared in Education News. The topic is the how and why of teaching babies to read. It covers familiar ground to readers of
1 minuteI am not Jewish (not one of the Frozen Chosen)
I am not Jewish, not that there is anything wrong with that! OK, seriously, neither my mother nor my father (or any grandparents or great-grandparents) has, to my knowledge, any Jewish blood or religious heritage.
4 minutesReviews of three classic children’s novels
Recently I finished reading three classic children’s novels to H. We’ve been on a roll, reading quite a bit every night. I don’t know if there’s much point to a non-literature guy pretending
4 minutesPlans for WatchKnow Reader
All, finally I thought I’d tell you about my plans for what I’m tentatively calling WatchKnow Reader, and ask for your input. I might ramble on — apologies in advance. As many readers
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/larrysanger- I invited my X peeps to ask me questions and then "like" the various questions, and I would upload the answers in video form. Here it is! Christian identity – 1:10 "Call no man teacher" – 9:25 Role of government – 15:45 Authority & resistance – 19:15 Wikipedia labor – 24:20 Net value of Wikipedia […]
- Made for beginners, family, friends, study group members. Most of this stuff is obvious after you use LLMs long enough. If you have more good ideas, put them in comments!
- While I was raised Christian, I lost my faith in my teens, as so many do. But my life has been a truth-seeking quest, and I ended up earning a Ph.D. in philosophy (as I was starting Wikipedia). My reasons for disbelief fell away one by one; eventually I read the Bible, finally, for good […]