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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Reading 1: Plato’s Timaeus
IGNORE THIS, WE’RE TESTING THE NEW SYSTEM FOR NOW.ANNOUNCEMENTS FORTHCOMING WHEN WE’RE DONE. Plato, Timaeus 17a-41d Topic: cosmology Obtain: buy ($5 Kindle edition is worth it just for the notes); free or also free; read up to the creation of man) Notes:
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
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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 […]