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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Should we affirm sola fide?
Note: This essay on the nature of faith and salvation was originally posted as part of a much longer series. Because it was buried in that series, like a chapter of a book, it did
A note on NPOV, ledes, and the erasure of dissent
The following comment originally appeared on a Wikipedia talk page. Posted on X: please retweet. I looked again at Wikipedia’s Gaza genocide article and, as I said last year, I don’t believe it follows
Plan for a Public Notebook
Some background My strange career began with academia and a little college teaching, and then a series of knowledge and education startups and consulting stints. I have rarely been short of interesting opportunities, from
Is the Filioque legitimate, or a corruption?
Note: This essay was originally posted as part of a much longer series. I think that because it was buried in that series, like a chapter of a book, it did not get
The Meaning and Main Texts of Christmas
As many people now seem to claim Christmas as a kind of “spiritual but not religious” holiday—most not believing that Jesus is God—the actual significance of the Advent and Incarnation has become opaque.
Grokipedia: a first look
To begin with my credentials for those who arrive here not knowing who I am: I’ve started, or helped start, five encyclopedias and meta-encyclopedia projects, including Wikipedia.((I founded Nupedia and Wikipedia, advised the
On Wikipedia, the God of the Bible Is the Head of a Pantheon
My God is called, in the Bible, Yahweh. That is, Yahweh is a speculative transliteration of the Hebrew name we know only by the vowel-less “tetragrammaton,” YHWH, or יְהוָה, which in generations past
How to Choose a Church: Quick Notes
In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, many people have declared that they will attend Church for the first time in a long time, or ever. This is excellent and I
Which projects would best serve the Kingdom?
I am not going to give an in-depth discussion of this question myself. I will, however, give you a bunch of notes. Mostly, the reason I am posting is to get your feedback
“Why we are the pure, primitive Church”
Many partisans defend their particular Christian denominations by constructing arguments that have the conclusion, “This is the purest form of Christianity.” Look and see if I am not correct. Here, then, is a
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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 […]
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- 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 […]